On 11-Mar-2011, at 07:19, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing that there was a size/space issue with the camera choice . . 
> .the part itself can't cost that much in the quantity that Apple would be 
> buying them. My guess is that either it wouldn't fit or else they concluded 
> that the slight extra cost for the camera in the iPhone 4 wasn't worth it.

I think the cost was a minor issue and they decided to hold back the better 
camera because 1) the iPad would make a really crappy still camera anyway and 
2) it gives them something for iPad 3.

> After all . . .who's going to hold up their iPad to take a picture? Anybody 
> with an iPad likely has an iPhone 4 as well . . .and if they have the iPad 
> with them then they surely have their iPhone 4 with them as well . . .in 
> which case which one are you going to hold up to snap the photo of the Grand 
> Canyon?

I can see the iPad being used for video chats, but I can't imagine taking many 
pictures with it.

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