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Saturday, May 01, 2010

Will Apple crash AT&T?

Apple's iPad Wi-Fi + 3G is finally here. And now the trouble begins. I believe that both the 3G-equipped iPad's sales and data usage will exceed expectations, meaning more people will be using more data than AT&T has planned for. Worse, other network-taxing developments may conspire with iPad data gluttony to overwhelm AT&T's mobile broadband capability, resulting in slowdowns and possibly even crashes. (Read)

Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is circled in this picture? Is it supposed to be a camera? I think it is just bad pixelation. If you look on the right hand vertical border almost at the same height as the top right corner of the right most app icon it looks like there may be a camera there also. OOH, I bet it is for 3D movie taking with the iPad! Why else would you need two front facing cameras? Avatar 2 is going to be shot entirely on iPads with dual front facing cameras!

Saturday, May 01, 2010 1:03:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

AT&T has enough bandwidth available to handle 40 million of these, including the devices already being used on the network. No need to worry. Heck, the California network alone has the ability to handle speeds up to 5 terabytes, yes bytes not bits, per SECOND.

Monday, May 03, 2010 8:06:00 AM  

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