If you look at the "TV and Video" section, it explicitly says it supports 1080p video out. But, if you look at the "formats supported" sub-section, it only supports 720p video.
IPad 2 Official Specs
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#32HDMI video mirroring is going to be big. My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and has been wishing she could hook her iPad up to the projector since the day she got it. Think of all the possibilities...makes so much more sense for a school to spend $500 on an ultralight, ultraportable iPad than spend more on bulky desktops you have to cart around just to play a video or show a web article (citation: my old high…
I was kind of betting the farm on this with some of my app design decisions. This is going to be huge for my startup.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many school projects have HDMI inputs? (Edit: Didn't realize the original did VGA -- I don't see how HDMI is such a big deal for presentations then)
I assume the iPad 2 hasn't lost the original's capability of outputting VGA. Edit: the reason it's a big deal is that the original iPad had to have the app specifically coded to deal with the external screen/projector (and few are). The new version just lets you mirror the content, whatever app you're in. It'd be nice if the new iOS retroactively made this possible on the original (at least at same resolution?) but I…
It hasn't. But the key here is support for mirroring, which wasn't built-in even when using the VGA Adapter.
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#34HDMI video mirroring is going to be big. My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and has been wishing she could hook her iPad up to the projector since the day she got it. Think of all the possibilities...makes so much more sense for a school to spend $500 on an ultralight, ultraportable iPad than spend more on bulky desktops you have to cart around just to play a video or show a web article (citation: my old high…
How many school projects have HDMI inputs? (Edit: Didn't realize the original did VGA -- I don't see how HDMI is such a big deal for presentations then)
Yup sorry, from the iPad 2 site: "Just plug in the Apple Digital AV Adapter or Apple VGA Adapter (sold separately) and your HDTV or projector becomes a bigger version of your iPad."
I didn't see anything non-HDMI mentioned in the liveblog so I wasn't sure if Apple made it work retroactively. Glad that they did!
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#35It's frustrating to me that apple keeps making their devices thinner. Why not maintain the same size and use the extra room for a larger battery, improved performance, or cooling?
It's clear to me you don't understand the market then. Being the thinnest is a clear differentiator. Having aesthetic style means a LOT to a lot of people (ie, customers).
Furthermore, Apple did increase the processor size, memory, and probably battery (considering it has same 10hr life) and also decreased the total volume of the enclosure.
Finally, if you've ever used an iPad at length you'd realize it doesn't need cooling 99.9% of the time. It just doesn't get warm... this is a huge differentiator from the netbooks it's often compared to.
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#36They must have had some room to spare in that case to bother putting in a rear camera.
Look at the screenshot of the camera app: http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/camera.html
Notice the placement of the "record" button. Now imagine holding the device up to take a picture with two hands.
Even assuming another app developer will come along and fix this, who's going to use a tablet as a giant, awkward digital camera?
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#37I didn't see any notice about how much ram it has... I'm hoping it has as much as the iPhone 4. Does anyone know for sure?
I was looking for that bit of info as well. It seems like if it's not advertised it's not something they're very proud of.
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While I don't disagree with your observations, I think it would be remiss to exclude the fact that many Apple employees are incredibly loyal and believe in the company.
True but every company has mostly loyal employees (imho). The trick is keeping the dishonest ones in-line and the best way to do that is through fear. Apple makes it clear they'll go nuclear on anyone who leaks information and the dishonest ones realize it probably isn't worth the risk.
I disagree. In a company with 10s of thousands of employees it still only takes 1 to leak something. Loyalty is (IMHO) far more important than those other factors (although they too contribute).
Consider a more open example: Google. Internally Google is more open than I believe Apple to be (I have experience with the former, none with the latter other than what I've read).
You may think that a lot of stuff leaks from Google based just on TC stories and so forth and while there are things I'm sure we could manage better, when I joined I was (and still am) amazed at what doesn't leak.
Google doesn't have the same militant, even draconian, approaches to secrecy that Apple does. What they have in common is that most people in both companies (IMHO) are very loyal.
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I completely agree. Their website roll out team kicks ass! They should publish how they manage the 'browser caching' issue, whenever I go to Apple.com after/during keynote, I get the latest page without doing hard refresh.
Cache-Control:max-age=221 That would do it.
I think you are over simplying. Look at http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/ for the nuances involved.
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#40Love how Apple up-sells storage in hundred dollar increments. I just bought a 32GB SD card (class 10) for my camera for $50 and I'm not buying millions of them at a time.
Not all flash is the same. SD cards and USB sticks use cheap, slow, high-density flash manufactured with older processes. The A4/A5 flash is also integrated into the same package as the CPU(s). Most analysts estimate the flash as a significant part of the overall cost of iOS devices. Yes, it is market segmentation as well, but that extra flash still isn't free.