“To ensure that it can’t be removed, the iPad must also remain tethered to a fixed object, said the people, who asked not to be named because their plans for the iPad have not been made public,” MacMillan reports. “Apple won’t send out an iPad until potential partners send photographic evidence that they’ve complied.”
MacMillan reports, “Bending to Apple’s demands may be a small price to pay for inclusion among software programmers who get a jump start on applications for a potentially best-selling product. Munster expects Apple to sell 3 million to 4 million iPads in the first year.”
MacDailyNews Take: Too low.
MacMillan continues, “Apple’s code of silence extends to 140-character messages on the microblogging site Twitter. During an in-person meeting with Apple representatives in February, Wall Street Journal Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray posted a short message to Twitter that announced he was using the device. The tweet was later removed from the site.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
MDN Take is like AT&T;: Raising the Bar
So why all the continued secrecy?
Ah the secrecy! All part of the hype to bolster sales……. I got no problem with that!
You’d think that they are working for the defense industry (or something even more sinister, like the NSA)…
“So why all the continued secrecy?”
every hour of secrecy slows down by a day the copy machines at m$, Google, HTC, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Samsung … you name it !
I’m pretty much with Nicu on this one.
Also, the secrecy itself is outrageous publicity for the product. First day sales lines promise to be as big and exciting as any other Apple opening day. And the people in line will be excited to the point of being giddy.
But what’s left to hide? Are there hardware elements that have been left out of the presentation <cough>webcam</cough> that are going to suddenly appear at the last moment?
I’m guessing it was a “Double Secret Pinky Swear”!!!!
“You don’t like the rules, don’t join”.
“You’d think that they are working for the defense industry (or something even more sinister, like the NSA)…”
Hmmm…. when I think of “sinister”, it’s not the NSA. It’s more like the DNC.
Now we have a use for all the bankrupt bank buildings. Put your iPad in the vault and lock the app developers in until they produce something insanely great.
How long will it take the reverse engineers to get started? Will they have space across the street from an Apple store set up for an immediate tear down after camping out “first in line”?
Or, have the industrial spies already acquired the device?
Sinister? the RNC has shown their talent in that regard. Repeatedly.
You want sinister, take a look at the YMCA. That Indian dude is clearly up to no good…
You’d think that they are working for the defense industry
Actually, at some levels of security in the defense industry, you are allowed to have a computer in an office that has uncovered windows, as long as the screen is not visible. (I.e. only the the back of the screen is visible through the window.)
when I think of “sinister”, it’s not the NSA. It’s more like the DNC.
Hey!!!!
The Do Not Call registry is a good thing!!!