John Sessoms wrote: >From: Godfrey DiGiorgi >> damm funny >> >> http://scottbourne.com/post/368750997/q-a-with-scott-bourne-about-the-ipad > >I guess you had to be there. > >I will NOT being an ipad. Has nothing to do with my disdain for Apple >the corporation. Although I have that in plenty. > >It's simply because the ipad doesn't do anything for me I can't already >do with my existing laptop, and the ipad can't do a lot of things I can >do with my laptop ... like connect a USB card reader.
In all seriousness, I think the iPad has a lot of potential for photographers, as Scott Bourn points out in his posts about it. The second generation of the device will probably have a USB connection and likely an SD slot as well, if only because there will be competitors with these features by then (Scott's downplaying of this shortcoming strikes me not as Apple fanboyism but just the rationalization of anyone delighted with a new toy). The inability to show raw files will probably be overcome through software very soon. What Apple's done *right* is what Google always does right: Start with very *few* features and add stuff gradually as experience and real-life use demonstrate how it's used and what its strong and weak points are. Too many companies start with by throwing everything into a new product to see what sticks <cough>Sony<cough>. This looks like a classic case of "wait until the early adopters pay the high prices of the first-generation product and let them fund the R&D for the better and cheaper second-gen device". :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
