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Reuters staffer spots iPad 2 at The Daily launch event

by Michael Rose Feb 2nd 2011 at 6:20PM

Imagine, if you will, a high-profile introduction for a major new media product on the iPad; major enough to merit attendance and brief remarks from Apple's Eddy Cue. Let's posit for a moment that the room is filled with professional journalists who make it their business to notice small details that might lead to interesting stories.

Consider as well the possibility that some of the Apple team members in attendance might be carrying some product models that are ... unacknowledged, shall we say?

Yes, the front runners for the 2011 Phone In A Bar Accidental Scoop Awards are the new team of Apple and Reuters. The party of the first part seems to have brought along an iPad with front-facing camera to today's launch event for The Daily, and a Reuters reporter saw the device in the wild.

Reuters says "a source with knowledge of the device" confirmed that this was not a trick of the light, and that the real chips-and-salsa iPad 2s will indeed sport the camera along with other yet-to-be-confirmed features.

Nice job, anonymous Reuters reporter. Good luck on the job market, Apple intern who was supposed to bring the gaffer's tape and cover the iPad cameras.



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alanhudson

File under Reported Sightings of Loch Ness Monster, Abominable Snowman, Elvis Presley...

February 05 2011 at 5:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Rob

Don't forget Santa claus and Michael Jackson

February 11 2011 at 3:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sliffers

I have an IPAD with a front facing camera, but there is no mentiion why its there on the IPAD anywhere

February 03 2011 at 7:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
audionxs

Not only have I seen the ipad 2, I own one, and am posting this with it. I will not provide pictures as proof... so does this make me as credible as Reuters reporter?

-this post was made from ipad2-

February 03 2011 at 5:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mack

Well I'm totally convinced: a reporter at a press event saw someone who may or may not have been from Apple, carrying an iPad which may or may not have had a tiny camera hole along the top edge. But Reuters feels sure it wasn't a trick of the light because to top it all off an unnamed source has said that the next iPad will have a front facing camera. Now that is quality journalism!

Apple, you have been outed, may as well call off the whole iPad2 launch thing right now.

February 03 2011 at 4:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
si

Gaffer's tape? As in the tape owned by the interns boss? Or do you mean gaffer tape?

February 03 2011 at 3:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Emil

No, as in the tape owned by the *intern's* boss...

February 03 2011 at 10:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonnie

If I were on Reuters staff, I would have probably said I saw an iPad with a front-facing camera and banked on the 99.87% chance that the next iPad will have a front-facing camera anyway. Best case scenario: the rumorizers will eat it up. Worst case scenario: well... come on, of course Apple is going to put a front-facing camera on the next iPad.

February 02 2011 at 11:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Schloss

Incidentally, I don't think anything indicated in the article an Apple person had the device.

February 02 2011 at 7:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Schloss

Alexander - While I don't think this is proof, I also don't think any Reuters reporter on the media beat has not seen an ipad.

Pardon the double negative there.

February 02 2011 at 7:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alexander Marrero

Chances are the journalist has never had or seen an iPad up close and thought the sensor on top was a front facing camera. Lots of my friends see the small hole and think its a camera.

February 02 2011 at 6:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan Worrell

OK?

Hey Reuters: PICS or GTFO!

February 02 2011 at 6:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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