“Apple released a beta of the iPhone OS 3.2 SDK to developers last week so they can get a jump on making existing or new apps ready for the iPad. That version of the iPhone OS is made specifically for the iPad, and, as developers comb through the APIs, resources, and function calls, they are finding references to capabilities Steve Jobs never mentioned during the device’s unveiling.”
Video camera is what stops me from getting (eventually) one for my mom.
Mom would break the camera?
Sorry, meant *lack of* video camera.
This reminds me of the way Apple debuted the iPhone, make a more limited device first, then upgrade the software and hardware to support more capabilities over time.
A lot of the limitations of the iPad are bound to be addressed. Sad to say, it is, if Apple has anything to do with it, the future of computing, just as the iPhone is the future of the cellphone industry. A closed walled garden of Apple’s making, with the only freedom on the web servers it browses.
Tablet is probably the future of computing. I’d love to be able to just detach the screen from my laptop and go to sofa to read some documents.
The twist here is that Apple doesn’t own the tablet form factor, and much more useful & open tablet devices with real operating systems will appear shortly. The form factor does not preclude the Apple walled garden.
Next hardware release will either be September or December and it will include one of those must-haves, like a camera.
After that they will bump up the CPU speed or memory or something like that.
Then they will add some sort of multi-tasking interface two years from now.
Meanwhile everyone who bought version 1.0 will be buying 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.