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What Time Exactly is the iPad Avaiable?
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I'm waiting desperately here. Seriously, the wait is as bad for me as waiting for xbox 360 to launch back in 2005.
I'm assuming we'll know for sure around the second week of march. 3/15 3/16.
So we'll know in 10-20 days what the deal is.
"Patience is virtue" yea but it sucks!
I'm waiting desperately here. Seriously, the wait is as bad for me as waiting for xbox 360 to launch back in 2005.
I'm assuming we'll know for sure around the second week of march. 3/15 3/16.
So we'll know in 10-20 days what the deal is.
"Patience is virtue" yea but it sucks!
Also! I find it odd, we aren't allowed to pre-order yet. I'm assuming there might be some last minute changes. Whether it's price or hardware. So there's a chance what we saw in the keynote/price is not finalized! (Shocking I know)
So I'm anticipating something better, in store for us within the next couple weeks.
Detective out!
So I'm anticipating something better, in store for us within the next couple weeks.
Detective out!
LOL!
"i was watching this thing on TV about this guy Hitler...somebody should stop him!"
The chance of the price changing is zero*.
Apple is smarter than that!
(*unless it goes down)
Its pretty obvious that its because they haven't got FCC approval yet (or they now have and they plan to open orders soon).
It even pretty much says on the site at the bottom. They are not allowed to start taking orders until they have the approval.
I'm not sure where that rumor got started. Clearly the FCC has no control over someone taking orders for a device, merely over whether it's legal to actually deliver it to an end user.
The only US Government rule in force is the Federal Trade Commissions Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule, namely:
If, after taking the customers order, you learn that you cannot ship within the time you stated or within 30 days, you must seek the customers consent to the delayed shipment. If you cannot obtain the customers consent to the delay -- either because it is not a situation in which you are permitted to treat the customers silence as consent and the customer has not expressly consented to the delay, or because the customer has expressly refused to consent -- you must, without being asked, promptly refund all the money the customer paid you for the unshipped merchandise.
So they could take orders at absolutely any time as long as they said the delivery date was longer than it could possibly take to get FCC approval. They don't want to pad their dates that much for press reasons, so they won't take orders until they know they can deliver in <30 days.
Unless I'm mistaken, FCC approval is only required for the 3G models -- and only in the U.S., obviously -- since the FCC has authority to regulate uses of the telecomm spectrum. That's (at least) part of the reason these are scheduled to ship later than the Wifi models.
Ah, no, the FCC has broad jurisdiction to regulate all devices which may potentially interfere with licensed spectra. This includes basically any electronic device, which may be certified under 2 broad classes:
(h) Class A digital device. A digital device that is marketed for
use in a commercial, industrial or business environment, exclusive of a
device which is marketed for use by the general public or is intended to
be used in the home.
(i) Class B digital device. A digital device that is marketed for
use in a residential environment notwithstanding use in commercial,
business and industrial environments. Examples of such devices include,
but are not limited to, personal computers, calculators, and similar
electronic devices that are marketed for use by the general public.
use in a commercial, industrial or business environment, exclusive of a
device which is marketed for use by the general public or is intended to
be used in the home.
(i) Class B digital device. A digital device that is marketed for
use in a residential environment notwithstanding use in commercial,
business and industrial environments. Examples of such devices include,
but are not limited to, personal computers, calculators, and similar
electronic devices that are marketed for use by the general public.
So the iPad needs to achieve FCC Class B certification, even if it didn't have either WWAN or WLAN (having one or both just makes it more difficult).
Anecdote: In the early days of home computing (late 1970s), PCs emitted so much RF interference that we would occasionally use an AM radio as a debugging tool. We could actually hear the patterns of instructions being executed, and if they repeated you could tell the code was stuck in a loop.
See also: http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cg...SdocID=396062179546+1+1+0&WAISaction=retrieve