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I can not dump 8 Gb of RAW images onto my iPad and expect to get any real work done on them.
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Cloud services can only get you so far, especially when dealing with full resolution RAW files. I’ll admit there are a few nice photo editing apps available but you still always hit the same dead end. Apples weird little iTunes app file window is sadly obscure and tedious. There is still no easy way to manage files outside of iCloud/ Dropbox integration or the clever but usually awkward attempts at using a LAN network to transfer files back and forth. The simple fact of the matter is that it’s still kind of a pain in the ass to manage photos. It seems to me that most photographers today trying to use the iPad as an honest tool are doing it for the novelty. Writers can sing praises all day long about how nice it is not to use a laptop to write and how easy it is to focus with one but its still far from useful within many areas including the creative field I am closest to, photography. The same goes for web design, coding, print design, industrial design, etc. There are niceish vector, sketching, and image editing apps available but nothing with the horsepower or precision that it takes to complete a finished product. There are no designers that I am aware of using it to create much outside of concepts. At least as far as things stand at this point in time.
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When it comes to many jobs within the professional creative community the iPad is still more or less incapable of handling any honest workload. For many, including myself, the iPad is still not much more than a high tech note pad. I can wholeheartedly agree that the iPad is an increasingly great tool to gather ideas, write stories/articles, and stay in touch but for the time being this is where the road unfortunately ends.
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The tools most needed to get their work done are right there for the taking, you can hunt and gather all day long and it does make a fantastic, distraction free space to write in. I would say a good 90 percent of the debate on the iPads usefulness as a computer is coming from writers and casual users and this is where I find the debate getting a little one sided. The part of this whole thing that interests me, however, is the software.
A touch screen device like an iPad is a perfectly natural evolution of personal computing. Problem is, I come up empty handed whenever I try to figure out why there seems to be such a need to validate the ipad as a personal computer, of course its a PC! What is there to even debate or dwell on? The input device of choice doesn’t define what a computer is, and neither does the operating system, its as simple as that. Most of you reading this know of the “my ipad is my laptop now!” hype. I have been reading a lot of talk about iPads and their growing capabilities as creative tools.