Anyone else wondering when Apple will put an iSight camera in their freestanding LCD displays? Or if they ever will? I believe that every time someone at Apple takes a look at the issue, they flash back to the ADC monitors with their all-in-one Apple-only cable, and all the problems and bad press they got with those, and they shudder and move on to contemplate the Newton II as a more feasible project. But I sure would like an Apple display with a camera built in.
I hope they never, ever do that. I don’t like having the camera built in to my MacBook.
I have a spare iSight sitting around that I’m prepared to make you an insanely good deal on, if you’re interested. Mail or IM me.
It’s too bad because the ADC connection was awesome! If nothing else, there should be an industry standard for a cable that carries more than the video signal.
Tecnically awesome I should say. It’s not so cool dealing with the other issues of a proprietary connection.
Mark, what is it you don’t like about the camera? Too George Orwell?
I have Grandmas who will soon be upgrading their Macs and will get built-in iSights, with which they will want to see their grandchildren. One of them might want a separate display, which would put the kibosh on my plans.
Thanks for the offer of an iSight, but I, too, have two external iSights just hanging around, as my computers were built before email, and I use them occasionally (what I don’t have are enough ports, as it turns out, to have it plugged in all the time).
I’m an integrator, which goes to Denny’s comment. I loved the ADC, too, because it was one, beautiful, simple cable. That’s why I like the built-in cameras.
I like the notion of a camera, I just don’t like sticking it in a laptop or other piece of hardware that makes it difficult to manipulate. A laptop makes a fairly unwieldy vidcam, but then I guess Apple wants to kick you over to Canon or Sony if you want to do anything other than video chats.
Let me direct you to a post I made three years ago, describing a mythical iSight Express and iSight Extreme tandem. Maybe with the WiFi-is-ubiquitous philosophy of the iPod touch, we might see something like this soonish.