Apple Job Posting Suggests iPad Will Eventually Get Camera

Apple is seeking a Performance QA Engineer for iPad Media suggesting that the tablet will indeed gain video capture capabilities in the future.

The Interactive Media Group (IMG) provides the media and graphics foundation across all of Apple's innovative products, including iPhone, iPad, apple TV, iPod, iTunes, and Mac OS.


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. You will work together with the development team to ensure quality. Your focus will mainly be on performance testing and developing performance measurement test tools. You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of methodical testing strategies and accompanying test documentation. Day to day activities will include developing and conducting functional/system/regression testing.ad-hoc testing; creating and tracking high quality bug reports; and reporting on project progress.

Recent evidence from the iPad enclosure and the iPad OS has indicated that the tablet was supposed to or eventually will gain a camera.