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iPad 2 Rumored to be in Production
Stoobalou writes "The normally sober and sometimes accurate Wall Street Journal is claiming that Apple's iPad 2 is currently in production. Foxconn might be producing a limited number of prototype samples of the Second Coming of the iPad but we're pretty sure full production won't start until Steve Jobs (or whoever will be donning the black turtleneck in his sickly stead) strides onto the stage at the official launch keynote."
This post is rumored to be the 1st post! It's in production now!
Actually the iPhone models were:
So, Apple has been all over the place with its naming "conventions".
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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It is very unlikely that Apple would do anything to make it easy to put a DVD on the iPad. They want you to obtain content like that through the iTunes store. Anything they can do to help kill physical media is good for Apple.
The normally sober and sometimes accurate Wall Street Journal
Must not read the editorial page much.
http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/
It's continuously relevant.
A company well known for releasing new models of its products will release a new model of one of its newest products! Gasp!
A company notorious about being tightlipped on new stuff in development can't trust their Chinese partner company and gets scooped by the Grey Lady.
It's slashdot news-worthy.
The Gray Lady typically refers to the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal is the Gray Lady's psychotic older sister.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Also, will it have video-out capability yet? Or possibly video-in so I can use it to pretend I have a portable DVD player?
The very idea is heretical: A video-out capability would imply the existence of screens more perfect than the one Apple sees fit to include.
A video-in capability would imply the existence of things worth seeing that are not already in the app store.
Absurd to reason and dangerous to faith.
The iPad 1 already has video out. You just had to buy the necessary adapter. You could also use AirPlay.
God, it would be so nice if some company would just go ahead and make one to buy!
I wonder if one could find a stylus on Amazon?
The iPad 1 already has video-out: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A
It only works with certain apps, but you definitely can do presentations and such on a 50" screen, from your iPad.
I hate to be yet another voice claiming great iPad battery life against your direct experience, but. . . seriously, did you have a defective unit or something? In my experience a few hours of reading won't even drop my battery gauge by more than a few percent. Hell a few hours of video isn't even a problem.
The only problem I ever have with battery life is when I want to completely drain it, as they say one should occasionally do. I think the damn thing harvests power from ambient radio waves.
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You might be missing the point. Say he went to a hotel for a stay and wanted to watch something on his iPaid on the TV in the room without paying some silly $10 charge. Connect the cable and watch. Where is that modern, 21st century home digital network with the TV allowing you to use wireless to connect? Hint: It isn't there in the hotel.
How is that a coherent argument?
If you are at a hotel, you can use AirPlay just as you can at home, with an AppleTV. If the hotel TV doesn't have HDMI, you can use analog connections directly from the iPad. If the hotel TV doesn't have digital *or* analog connections, how is that a problem with the iPad?
And that's all within the very unusual circumstance of being in a hotel and wanting to hook video up to a TV. If that were the biggest problem with the iPad (that it for some reason couldn't video-out to hotel TVs) it would hardly be much of a thing to complain about for most people.
You are right, he might be missing the point. The point isn't that there's anything wrong with the iPad, the point is to just complain.
A few hours battery life reading? What kind of reading were you doing? I borrowed an iPad for a month and the average time between charges was a week if I was just reading. If I was watching a video or surfing the web a lot, it was a few days. It wasn't my iPad so I don't know how well the owner took care of it but it seemed to have decent battery life for me. It doesn't last weeks like a Kindle will but then again you can't do all the other stuff on a Kindle so that's a trade-off
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