A pair of
iPads was just revealed in the FCC's system in perfect synchrony with that little
pre-order sitch with which you may or may not already be familiar. Apple, of course, has a track record of timing its FCC filings perfectly so that virtually nothing is revealed before Cupertino wants it to be, and frankly, you're not going to get much here that you didn't already know -- the photographs (both external and internal) and the user manual are all still under confidentiality. Both units were tested for WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth, while one -- model number A1337 -- adds in GSM 850 / 1900 and UMTS 850 / 1900, so it appears that Apple has bundled all of its 3G and non-3G models into just two filings regardless of storage capacity. We caught A1337 flipping through an old issue of 2600, so for all we know, it socially engineered its way to FCC approval -- whatever it takes to make that late-April launch window, right?
posted March 12th 2010 4:17PM
Ipad Phreaks
I like "Leet" on the model
@Drago A totally awesome marketing campaign. 1337 iPad!
@Zer0Kage
It seems thats one of about 2 good points about buying this thing...
:P
Even so, how did this get to be classed as 'Breaking News'
the ipad has been confirmed for a while...
in fact...
i remember engadget producing a rather lot of articles on it...
@Drago
The model number is the only thing leet about it
-jp
@Drago I wish it was the wifi pad that got A1337 :(
@Drago It seems wrong to me, considering that 1337 was popularised by PC gamers :|
Whatever gets me my iPad as soon as possible.
So i guess Apple will pwn the competition with its 1337 ipad.
@Able then what, the pwnage tool pwns the ipad?
@blland hopefully!
Man it's so 1337leet
"Look George, I put the iPad storage sizes in the same folder... and now they're going out like that."
"Wut?"
"Yeah, sorry. Our base r not belong to us anymore."
I was going to say something, but everyone already said it.
The iPad is sooooooooooo 1337.
@CRA1G
If MS gets the Courier out before the ipad gets a camera. Im getting the Courier. If the ipad gets a camera and apps that can do the same thing as the courier, then i will get the ipad. Ether way i have to wait.
@Able
Keep waiting for... the Courier to....exist..
@Able If the iPad is ever able to do the things the Courier demo shows it doing, I'll be amazed. The iPad was designed from the ground up to be a content _consumption_ device, whereas the Courier is designed primarily to be a content _production_ device. Not saying it won't, or couldn't, change, but given Apple's contentedness with the iPhone OS' overall usage model, I don't see that happening any time soon.
@CRA1G thats a great way to put it. From what I have seen the Courier has a bunch of potential. I am pretty excited to see what it brings and what the competition it brings. Apple I love ya but you need to break out of this bubble of yours thinking that you tell the consumer what they want and need, listen to us for a change and we will let you know what we want.
@CRA1G
If the *Courier* is ever able to do the things that the Courier proof-of-concept video shows it doing, I'll be amazed.
Remember the controller-less XBox concept video from 2004-2005? The one that finally saw a prototype last year in Project Natal (that is nowhere near shipping)? The game-changing features from Longhorn that slipped into nothingness? The Origami project, with its super-slick mockups that finally produced a handful of UMPCs, all of which bombed? Hell, even the Microsoft Tablet PC marketing videos were never actually accomplished. You got some pen input stuff and OneNote and they gave up doing anything else with it.
@angermeans
I wonder when consumers start buying content-production-devices and use them mainly for the purpose of production, will they have turned into producers, and the consumer devices into investment?
Next year we can expect the iH4x, model W4R32
Interesting...but I'll just keep waiting patiently for the Dell Mini 5.
@deecee
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@masta vaan
i prepare to be downranked...for irrelevancy and fanboyism... but i dont care, because the dell mini 5 pwns
@CRA1G
There are tons of iPhone apps for content creation. Pretty safe to assume most will get full fledged iPad versions. Brushes created the art work for the cover of a major publication. Plenty of text editors, music tools, image manipulation tools, video manipulation tools, etc. iWork is capable of producing some pretty nice documents, spreadsheets, presentations which is also technically content creation. I think it's fair to argue the merits of the hardware for either task but clearly on the software side the iPhone/iPad has tons of content creation tools and quite a few really top notch ones.
@(Unverified)
you are confusing novelty with actual capacity, see http://www.chemie.unibas.ch/~holder/JPG/time.jpg for where that gets you.
I wonder if that specifc model is going to sell disproportionately higher than the others.
"Apple, of course, has a track record of timing its FCC filings perfectly so that virtually nothing is revealed before Cupertino wants it to be,"
This is called Short-Term Confidentiality and ANYBODY applying for an FCC ID can opt for it. And any TCB will hold the Grant submission into the OET website at the request of the manufacturer. It's extremely common and easy to do, not just for "Cupertino".
@shishi Agreed -- I've got a terrific read on FCC filings, in fact. My finger is constantly on that pulse, and I can tell you that I scoop far more Samsungs and HTCs (just to give a couple random examples) via FCC filings than I do Apple products. I'm not saying Apple has some special exemption or capability here, just that they appear to manage their FCC presence with far greater control than most companies.
@Chris Ziegler
Maybe those other companies *want* their upcoming products to leak out early so people can start talking about them.
@Michael Scrip
Hello??
We have been following Apple's discrete breadcrumb trail to a tablet for near a decade... These guys are masters at PR, if nothing else.
@Chris Ziegler
Agree, some companies like to keep it really tight. Others, as Michael Scrip suggests below, either don't care or even welcome the rumor mill. Apple is notorious for how paranoiac they are about their "secrets". I've met several Apple employees at training courses and seminars. A few months ago after a one-day course ended the organizers wanted to take a group photo of the attendees, and the Apple guys marched out of the room, saying that "they are not allowed to be photographed" (!!) and that "people go through their garbage" and stuff like that. :o
@CRA1G -- "the Courier is designed primarily to be a content _production_ device."
Exactly. The Courier looks great... for the tasks shown in the demo.
But, for the average person... who just wants to browse the web and check email... why have 2 screens? Wouldn't one bigger screen (iPad) be better?
I guess you can turn the Courier sideways and use the bottom screen as a touchscreen keyboard... kinda like a Nintendo DS. Then the Courier would act like a netbook... but it still wouldn't be one of those either.
"A pair of iPads was just revealed..."
Isn't it were?
@HikaKao
A pair were...?
@Michael Scrip Just asking, it just sounds wrong to me. But English is not my first language, so I'm far from reliable xD
@HikaKao The subject is slippery and often trips people up. Here the subject is "pair."
If it said 2 ipads, then "were" is appropriate since the subject is plural.
@keeshen Ahh, ONE pair, no? Well, I guess you learn something new each day.
@HikaKao
It's actually correct. A pair WAS. It's a single pair. Compare to the following sentences:
1. John and Marsha were at the dance club last night. The pair was seen dancing like there was no tomorrow.
2. John and Marsha were at the dance club last night. The pair were seen dancing like there was no tomorrow.
Number 1 is the correct one.
@aardWolf
You might be correct, but the reasoning doesn't hold in British usage.
To my knowledge, both of the following are considered acceptable, each in their respective dialect:
1) The crowd is going wild. (AmE)
2) The crowd are going wild. (BrE)
Having said that, I'm not sure that the British English usage of plural verb forms in conjunction with collective nouns applies to pairs. It may be reserved for collections of indeterminate size.
@eyerot
They is going wild.
Heh. English is silly.
@zakany
Weeellll, as far as American English goes, we wouldn't use the pronoun 'they' for 'the crowd', opting instead for 'it'.
"The crowd is going wild."
"It is going wild."
It's not so much a matter of how we perceive the plurality as it's a matter of how we classify the noun itself. If you define a crowd as a "group of people", you're just being redundant. You then have to define group. At this point one might say "a bunch of people". You can keep this up forever. Eventually you have to break it down to just saying "people," with perhaps an adjective (ie., several people). But at that point, it would be silly to grammatically equate "several people" to "a crowd of people".
Er, I'm looking too far into this.
Americans automatically win cuz we know how to farking spell tire correctly! Nyah! *runs away*
@HikaKao
A pair is singular, it's just defined as containing two objects. Same with things like "everyone was" or "every single one was".
@meditatingpanda Ahh but which of these is correct (in American English):
1) I wish that pair of iPads was shipped sooner.
2) I wish that pair of iPads were shipped sooner.
#2 :)
@CRA1G
iPad = a real device that exists now, and is available to pre-order and will begin shipping in weeks.
Courier = a device that the alleged manufacturer has yet to confirm is being manufactured, and exists only in photographs and a concept video.
A cynic might suggest that the alleged manufacturer of the concept device is trying to put people off buying it's rival's device that is available now, by showcasing more sophisticated functionality.
Until I see an actual product, pricing, a developer SDK and a shipping date for the Courier, I'll stick with what's already out there.
I'm sure you must be a really nice guy in real life.
But as for now, please go back to 4chan.
@Exbloder I think you missed the joke... unless I missed yours. Hmm. Now I'm confused.
@MikeP It was ment to be a reply to someone else's comment, I tried to remove the @(name) and see if it still worked ;)
@Exbloder Wow - I think you broke it. Our comments are floating on their own now, and the original post has disappeared. My original comment was a joke, but now it really is confusing ;o)
@MikeP Holy crap I broke the reply system