Adobe gives sneak peak of Lightroom-style app for tablets

For CF card users, you need "these special card readers" to offload your CF cards to a Mac Air or Windows laptop too! Laptops with built-in CF card slots aren't exactly ubiquitous.

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But CF card readers are ubiquitous, and they plug into USB ports. So those CF card readers wouldn't count as "'special'", only separate. The fact that you skipped that important point about Apple only ports suggests you aren't real familiar with iPads; they don't have USB ports, while an Air does, as do Windows computers.

sean000,

Well then it's not really useful raw extraction software. Why buy it? Why would Adobe think there's a market? Albeit it would count as good viewing and sorting software.

Then if a good jpeg is say at least one third the size of the raw file, transferring say 200 jpegs--miniraws is not something that can quickly be done over wifi, at least right now.

I also see a problem in the system you describe: What if you want to go back to the raw with more powerful Adobe software,?I guess finding the file you want would be faster, but you've already wasted time making it into some format you'll likely not use--that jpeg-mini raw hybrid.

iPad's have a USB adapter allowing it to read the pics straight from camera -- not the fastest in the world but good enough and very light. A similar adapter allows iDevices to read SD cards. These already exist.

That must be why the IOS developers conference sold out in 2 minutes. Lack of interest in the platform.

There are more Android phones out there, but that doesn't tell the whole story. It's still true that for every dollar an iOS developer makes, an Android developer makes about $0.25. Also, in the Comscore report that just came out, iOS market share is up and the gain was at the expense of Android, which was down.

HowaboutRAW still spreading lies and misinformation ?

Really this whole stupid thread was caused by the "Why bother with Apple" comment. Just a troll accomplishing what he set out to do.

Gee my 64bit quad core i7 machine with 8 gigs of RAM runs Photoshop CS6 and Bridge easily--my laptop rarely exceeds 4 gigs of ram usage, oh wait.

You're right, InTheMist, they are not...but probably, like me, with about 95% certainty that their next laptop will not be actually one but rather the next incarnation of this superb offer. The only reason I am not jumping head and feat into the present offer is the battery running/time weight compromise. I couldn't imagine such an apt product to clearly illustrated why aapl is going down the drain as the "Surface Pro" turned out to be.