{"id":397,"date":"2010-04-03T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/word\/?p=397"},"modified":"2010-04-03T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T22:14:40","slug":"a-reason-the-ipad-and-ipod-touch-do-not-have-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/2010\/04\/a-reason-the-ipad-and-ipod-touch-do-not-have-a-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason the iPad and iPod Touch Do NOT Have A Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I visited the Apple iPad line, quized several store employees on the device and played with it for about 30 minutes. I didn&#8217;t learn a whole lot more, except that it is <strong>surprisingly heavy to hold in your hand<\/strong>, and <strong>typing on a flat surface is poor<\/strong> because of the uneven back.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. The one thing I really learned today from Apple was a possible explaination as to why the iPad doesn&#8217;t have a camera. Questioning a store employee, he mentioned that Apple was pushing this as a device similar to the no-camera iPod Touch, to businesses, and the military. <strong>Many businesses and the military don&#8217;t like devices with cameras as they can give away secrets and infringe on privacy.<\/strong> This is one reason why the iPod Touch and iPad still do not have cameras, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/188348\/sleuthing_for_an_ipad_camera.html\">despite tear\u00a0downs that show plenty of space for one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think the iPod Touch and iPad don&#8217;t have a camera? Let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I visited the Apple iPad line, quized several store employees on the device and played with it for about 30 minutes. I didn&#8217;t learn a whole lot more, except that it is surprisingly heavy to hold in your hand, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/2010\/04\/a-reason-the-ipad-and-ipod-touch-do-not-have-a-camera\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[55,71,70,72,74,73],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-camera","tag-ipad","tag-ipod-touch","tag-security","tag-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/backupify\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->