On 9/26/2011 3:26 PM, Just Murray wrote:
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> I was mostly being a sarcastic ass.
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> I find that printing from a toy like an iPad is like printing from my
> memory card. Kinda silly. I need my computer for that. Maybe I do too
> much post processing. Idk. And maybe that will change. But at the moment
> all that stuff is too toy like to be taken seriously by any serious
> amateur. But in the distant future maybe more better photography output
> devices will come to the iPad. Any company could pop one out. Apple
> didn't say no. But. The market isn't filling that void. Why? Possibly
> because the void isn't huge. Maybe because the tool or toy isn't ready.
> Idk. The iPad doesn't take great photos. I'd guess that better video
> tools come first. That's just a guess. Any guess is just as good or better.
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> Anyone else wanna chime in?
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[snip]
The market isn't filling the void, true. The reasons are a mystery and
one can't deny that your comment about the void not being huge may be
true. But the other aspect may well be that in order to get access to
Apple's specs for the air-print standard, the cost and the intimate
dance with Apple that might be required may be another reason.
But you seem to be thinking in terms of photo printers only -- how about
standard text printers so that documents from Pages or Docs2Go or
Numbers or PDF files or e-mails? I readily concede that the iPad isn't
a great photo taker, but some of the editing tools, while not replacing
desktop tools, can do some fantastic work so that the ability to print
photos from the iPad, even if taken with a camera and then transferred,
may well be a huge market just waiting to happen and more and more
"casual" iPad users buy them.
The business community would jump at the chance to get easy great
printing from iPads -- that way they could give all their salesmen,
field agents, whomever, an iPad and a wireless printer and things could
work more easily and perhaps better than the expensive notebooks they're
saddled with now.
I can also see the medical community making great use of iPads both as
reference tools and also for doctors to dictate their notes into, using
voice recognition software to turn those notes into text and then print
them out for placing in patients' folders. And the potential for
printing out prescriptions that can actually be read is huge.
I think that printing with the iPad is a field which we will witness
huge growth in over the coming years as the iPad works its way more and
more deeply into industry, healthcare, government, homes, music, etc.
But none of my guesses are any better than yours. It sure is fun to
conjecture, though.
--
David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
