Also, TUAW noticed a NYTimes Best Seller list button at the bottom.
During Apple’s iPad commercial last night, we caught a glimpse of iBookstore pricing. The prices seem to fall below hardcover books, audiobook, paperback prices and even Kindles’s pricing. For instance, Ted Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass costs $23 for the hardcover, $19.25 for the B&W Kindle version and $14.95 for the iPad version. Other books show similar price lines.
Also, Apple looks to store documents on the iPad in a “My Documents” folder in iWork touch. This was touched on briefly after the launch event but it is interesting that Apple chose this nomenclature. This, perhaps to make it easier on the PC people to understand the storage architecture? You can see that and some more of the interface from the screenshot below:
And finally, for you conspiracy theorist/Art Bell types, we have a smudge/iR sensor/CIA hidden camera three seconds in:
Thanks to everyone who sent these in!
Very interesting! There is definitely something fishy going on with that camera..
the “camera” you’re seeing is probably just an ambient light sensor
No one would put an ambient light sensor where you can most of the time accidentally cover it with your hand.
Then where do you think it is on the iPhone?
To the side of the speaker, not in the exact center. ANd the way you hold the iPhone will not block the censor, in the iPad it will.
alright so that’s a few millimeters away from the exact center, i cover it whenever i hold the iphone sideways to play a game, to go online, to test, to do just about anything it can be covered on the iphone
Well it could be a sensor, yes. The thing is, both on the MacBook and the iPhone the ambient light sensors are completely, 100% invisible. You just can’t see them – except in very strong direct sunlight. So I’m really not sure what to think. It could be a sensor, but why is it visible? The only thing that is visible on my MacBook the same way as in this video is the camera. And, let’s not forget, what’s about this “surprise” that has been promised to the first iPad buyers?
Good stuff. I also noticed that they showed off a few unseen features of mail, such as the slick effect you get selecting multiple emails at once
I have seen it before. It’s in all the hands-on and on the original flash controversial video.
I think you’ve taken speculation to a new level. I’ll buy the smudge as an inkling of a camera, but the iWork “My Documents” thing is just silly. The most logical thing is that it’s a button that heads to the splash screen, where you choose your saved documents (exactly like Phil did during the Keynote). I sincerely doubt there’s any file system accessible from the app, I’m sure your documents just go to the right place. If you receive a Word or Pages file in your e-mail, there’s likely a hold-to-open option that opens it in Pages, and it goes to the splash screen where you choose. Then you swipe to delete any old files you don’t need.
Why would anyone assume any different?
I’d assume differently because the SDK clearly talks about how to code apps to take advantage of a shared document repository (i.e., documents folder) on the iPad.
with a super high brighness and contrast
Holy crap! There’s really something in that camera place….and its not just in one frame…. it stays here for like 3 seconds
That is not a camera. It’s just a sensor.
Apple wouldn’t put a ambient sensor where they might eventually put a camera.
Then why is it there on my MacBook Pro?
What is the significance of 941? The time on the iPad is always 9:41… and the email being replied to is from aaronoconnel941@me.com. What’s odd about the time is that it MUST be fake. You can see the “last updated” time at the bottom of the email list, and it’s not 9:41. Someone has clearly gone in and ensured the time is always 9:41.
It probably has some significance to one of the editors. They always put little things like that, that only have meaning to them. It’s not some top secret Apple message.
Shoulda used 4:20, IMO
iPhone had been like that since launch, no?
It looks to be the same color as the sensors on the iPhone. Am I wrong?
It’s there so that Apple can use remote access to spy on you in your houe!
Silly question, but… wouldn’t the camera sensor on the back of the device? How would you see what you’re shooting if it was on the front?
I think that on a device like the iPad, it`s far more interesting to have a frontal camera for videoconferencing than a camera for taking photos…
This discussion is referring to a front facing iSight web cam for Video chatting…
Camera as in ichat…
It’S actually to small for a camera.
This is what i did with Photoshop.. the size is the same as the the camera in the iMac.. Ok, I don’t know if this is a camera, but I don’t think it’s a sensor. In the iPhone, sensors are visible only in full sunlignt.
Woo! It was me that tipped off 9to5mac for the ‘My Documents.’
Pay no attention to the anonymous 9to5Mac Noob above– it was I who tipped them off! ;D
“Also, Apple looks to store documents on the iPad in a “My Documents” folder in iWork touch. This was touched on briefly after the launch event but it is interesting that Apple chose this nomenclature. This, perhaps to make it easier on the PC people to understand the storage architecture?”
Since when have Mac’s had a different file storage architecture? At least I store my files in folders on my Macs.
Its “My Documents” in Windows and “Documents” in Mac OS X
Actually, it’s ‘My Documents’ in all of Windows XP, but is referred to by both ‘My Documents’ or ‘Documents’, depending on where you look in Windows Vista and 7. So, unless Apple is specifically targeting just Windows XP users, the ‘My Documents’ rumor doesn’t sound very plausible.
As far as this camera things goes, its the only time in the commercial that the bezel doesn’t look fake. For those 3 seconds, it seems like the video hasn’t really been messed with at all.
There is certainly a difference between the look of the ipad in that shot as opposed to every other shot in the commercial.
Camera (webcam) on the 3G version…
Remember this…
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/is-this-the-apple-tablet/