Will the iPad get a camera after all (read The Camera Story)? A new job posting seems to confirm it. Apple is preparing the iPad for a videocamera and is seeking a quality assurance engineer for Media Systems devision. The division is part of Apple’s Interactive Media Group.
The job posting particularly focusses on iPad media and it’s the new employee’s job to test the photocamera, videocamera, audio-recording and audio playback.
“The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines.
Familiarity with and interest in photography, video as well as media file formats is highly desirable. Experience with tuning of and image pipeline, including, but not limited to AWB, Color Correction, AutoExposure, FrameRate adjustments is a plus.”
It’s unclear whether the iPad will include a camera or not when it is released, although it looks pretty clear that the first version of the iPad will not have a camera of any sort. The camera capabilities the new employee is going to test might be for the second version. In that case we’ll probably see an iPad with camera as early as next year.
The Job description can be found at jobs.apple.com
Source: MacRumors
