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[jharrell]

Also if anyones interested, it looks like there are reports coming out of the "town hall" meeting Jobs did with Apple employee's after the iPad announcement. Sounds like the questions from employee centered on Google and Flash and seems to be the first time Jobs actually made a statement about Flash:
wired article

 

[mstarks01]

I'm sure someone will jailbreak the iPad at some point. My iPhone is jailbroken. It's a pain in the ass when an upgrade comes out because you have to wait for someone to come up with a jailbreak/unlock every time. My next phone will be Android.

Do the upgrades happen automatically without the ability to deny them?

 

[potts.mike]

I'm sure someone will jailbreak the iPad at some point. My iPhone is jailbroken. It's a pain in the ass when an upgrade comes out because you have to wait for someone to come up with a jailbreak/unlock every time. My next phone will be Android.

Do the upgrades happen automatically without the ability to deny them?

Currently the upgrades are done when the device is synced with itunes and it prompts you whether you want to do it or not.

 

[programmergeek]

I just wish they added a camera as mentioned above, bluetooth for a headset or keyboard/mouse and a IR emmiter so you could use this as a remote in my HT and around the house. Come on apple a IR emmiter and hardware $2, they couldn't put it in. I'm sure you can replace the battery like any apple product. But this has a fair amount of functionally left out and no expanable memory (sd) port that gets me.

 

[ano]

I just wish they added a camera as mentioned above, bluetooth for a headset or keyboard/mouse and a IR emmiter so you could use this as a remote in my HT and around the house. Come on apple a IR emmiter and hardware $2, they couldn't put it in. I'm sure you can replace the battery like any apple product. But this has a fair amount of functionally left out and no expanable memory (sd) port that gets me.

And why again do you think it doesn't have Bluetooth? From the amount of posts like that here you'd think there must be a fake iPad specs page somewhere. The REAL specs are here: iPad Specs and it does in fact have the very latest stereo Bluetooth. IR emitters. Probably not but that doesn't rule out a third-party add-on.

 

[potts.mike]

And why again do you think it doesn't have Bluetooth? From the amount of posts like that here you'd think there must be a fake iPad specs page somewhere. The REAL specs are here: iPad Specs and it does in fact have the very latest stereo Bluetooth. IR emitters. Probably not but that doesn't rule out a third-party add-on.

There is definitely a lot of misinformation out there when it comes to apple's I products. While there are valid complaints and short comings in iphones and probably the ipad I feel that they are simply the easiest to use pieces of consumer electronics that exist. My 75 year old grandfather was up and running on an iphone in a couple days!