Apple Job posting hints to iPad camera
09. Feb, 2010 | by Andrew Steffy
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Those of you who were hoping for some iChat goodness to come to the iPad may get your wish after all. Apple has a new job posting on its website for a Performance and Quality Assurance Engineer in the iPad media division. The help wanted reads:
“The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines.”
When Apple launched the device last month, many were left scratching their heads wondering where the camera was. Well apparently Apple has already allotted space to fit a camera in the iPad and is preparing to have it added to next year’s generation of tablets. We all know that Apple is here to make money, so there always needs to be an incentive to upgrade from previous models.
So are you eager to get your hands on the iPad in the next month or does this news make you want to wait it out for next year’s model? Let us know in the comments.
Via Wired
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yeah ill wait for next years version cause i need a camera so i can drop my computer cause my laptop is on its last legs
This will most likely make me wait. When I first read about and watched the videos of the iPad launch I too was thinking “What? No Camera?” I still don’t understand why the new generations of iPod Touches don’t have one either when the iPhone does.
I want a camera for video conferencing and for video blog posts. I’m shocked they didn’t include this with the first generation. Not sure what they were thinking.
I am a huge technology fanatic and have every apple product imaginable (up until Jan 27). So this is probably not going to discourage me to change my mind, but it does make me think about any other upgrades (like OSX anybody).