Originally Posted By: Dignan
By the way, something about this smells fishy to me. I know we're talking about an actual Apple employee, but also take this in consideration: when developers wanted to work on the iPad, they had to build a friggin' room to house it, bolt it to a table, and send Apple proof before they could receive it. And this was AFTER the product was announced, so we all knew about it already.

The iPhone is a phone. You can't really bolt the thing down inside a room 24x7 when you need to test it.

The iPad can have most of its testing done inside whilst bolted down. Only the people that are testing the 3G wireless portion need to have the ability to wander.