Comments on: iWork for iPhone and iLife for iPad?

By: Brian Winter

Brian Winter — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:17:02 +0000

I used my iPad on holiday in Japan in September. Every couple of days I’d load up my SD chips onto the iPad. It did a sort of bearable job splitting events according to the date the images were shot. No editing of titles no means of tagging but worse to come!
I upgraded to iOS 4.2! All events sorted (sort of) according to date were lost! Replaced with – 101IMPRT, 102IMPRT etc. now just how useless is that. One giant leap for iOS, one big failure for Apple. How is it no-one checked the software before foisting it on the public. Even the hyped folders was misrepresentation. Just folders for apps and nothing else. I could do that before the upgrade to 4.2.1 so that was nothing new anyway.
Only around three apps on the iTunes shop are reasonable but none are as good as iPhoto ’09. Why, oh why, hasn’t Apple ported iLife over to the iPad or might we see it next year?
In the meantime I gave up trying to organise my images on the Pad and used iPhoto on my MBA 12″
Incidently videos recorded with my Canon G11 reproduce without problems on the iPad via Photo.

By: Brian Winter

Brian Winter — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:59:18 +0000

Photo on the iPad wasn’t bad on iOS 3.2 but strangely it’s actually worse on iOS 4.2.1. Events created on 3.2 using date image was taken are lost in 4.2.1
let’s hope iLife ’11 rectifies this problem.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:11:27 +0000

Now the Ipad is one of Oprahs favorite things??? Oprah and Jobs, taking over the world…http://www.mysmartrend.com/news-briefs/news-watch/oprah-gives-apple-inc-ipads-more-o-magazine-staffers-aapl

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:37:14 +0000

One more big clue to iWork being destined for the iPhone:

Go to the iPhone page on the Apple Store.
Pre-order a model of your choosing.
Click "Learn more" under the AppleCare header

You can then see the following:

"Software support included

Whether you're sitting in the comfort of your home or office or on the go, you can get direct access to Apple experts for questions on a wide range of topics, including:

* Syncing with iTunes
* Connecting to wireless networks
* Sending and receiving email
* Using iWork for iPhone and other Apple-branded iPhone apps"

Can't get any plainer than that.

By: John Ganotis

John Ganotis — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:26:43 +0000

What really excites me is the trend of the iPhone & iPad working together with other hardware, like via the VGA adaptor or Bluetooth keyboards. I think there is a lot of opportunity here for new implementations of iPhone/iPad applications and some related hardware to accomplish new things beyond what just the phone and an application can do. It's such a versatile device, and the more it can connect to other hardware the more possibilities there are to extend the iPad or iPhone functionality.

With the software alone though, it's personally huge for me to be able to edit video 1) anywhere and 2) with a touch interface. I don't see myself making finished products in iMovie on the iPhone, but at least getting a rough cut together when I have a few spare minutes that I can transfer to my MacBook to finish up. To take it a step further I can't wait for the day there is a version of Logic Pro on the iPad, or at least a companion to the full version, for the same reason.

By: Shock Me

Shock Me — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:42:42 +0000

I think a system for sharing between the phone, pad, and desktop will have to be provided for this to come to fruition. That will mean some way of accomplishing what we used to use the Finder for. We'll need something a Bonjour for OSX services. It could be some form of ad hoc networking of your various iDevices exchanging pasteboards, screens, and networking as automatically as possible. That will mean enhanced sharing and syncing as close to realtime as possible must appear sooner rather than later.