Last week, Cologne saw the second incarnation of gamescom since it moved from Leipzig over to western Germany. Tim and I had an idea on how to cover it this year: we decided to do a live stream à la Leo Laporte or the Pixel Corps from on location aka the show floor.
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Phew, where do I start? Let’s just say the past two months have been quite eventful! The latest and not so great thing actually concerned this website itself. It was down for a few days while I was changing providers. I went from GoDaddy to the cheaper and much (!) simpler Hover. If you ever had to make your way through an order at GoDaddy you know what I mean. Additionally Hover has an awesome support crew that gave me updates every single time something changed with the status of my failed transfer. I’m not really sure what exactly went wrong during the domain transfer but this site – as you can see – is back up again and won’t be going anywhere soon.
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Sorry for the lack of recent updates. The past few weeks have been pretty packed and the upcoming weeks don’t look any better. Some things didn’t and won’t work out the way they were planned. On the other hand other possibilities are just around the corner. Realizing what you love to do in life is more important than a shortcut to some random goal you have set for yourself. But maybe that’s just me…
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For those who have yet to find a Twitter alternative to the “usual suspects” like TweetDeck or Twitterrific this app seems to have some promise. I haven’t tried it myself over a longer time yet, but @danvanmoll told me he liked it and I trust his judgement. So, if you’re fed up with the major players for whatever reasons head over to Osfoora and have a look for yourself.
The bottom line is that the requirement to use the iPad Photos app to access your photos on a flash card, plus the connectivity issues, means the iPad is not something that a professional would likely tolerate. And the inability for apps to read photos in their original form and location prevents developers from creating an app, even a simple one, that would be useful for professionals. Forget about workflows used by large organizations that rely upon metadata such as the camera serial number. From what we can surmise, the iPad is meant for the consumption of media, not the production of media content. If Apple changes their mind or provides some other type of direct iPhone OS/SDK access to the photos on a card (or in a camera), then we will investigate further the possibility of a mobile app for the iPad. At this point it is darn near impossible for us to provide what we would consider a useful app, something besides a gimmick or curiosity. We’re sorry. Talk to Apple and let them know you can’t justify buying their devices until they open up access for apps to read YOUR photos directly from YOUR flash card. And tell Apple that you want another CCK part that allows a CF card to be inserted directly.
He’s got some valid points in his open letter and it makes sense they don’t want to spend time on app when crucial things aren’t in place right now.
Many have already stated that the iPad is meant for content consumption rather than creation.
I wonder whether (and how) Apple will change its stance on the problems he’s mentioning. Especially his point about metadata being lost when a 3rd party app accesses photos should be easy and important enough to be fixed in an upcoming version of the iPhone OS. Then again, maybe Apple doesn’t see professionals using iPads for this kind of work in the first place.
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