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Robo
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2011-03-20, 23:50

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Originally Posted by Wrao View Post
I think this is a good idea, but given how good the iPad is as a digital picture frame/sharing device, I wouldn't expect Apple to be in a rush to implement something like this. I know they made a bit of a deal about the photo printing services in the Lion preview, and it has been a quiet, but interesting service for some time now. But, I just think so much of the iPad's strength is directly tied into that "here, look at this" moment when you hand it to someone to see a: chart, email, video, website, picture...etc. That creating a service that sort of pulls that out of the device seems sort of obsolete?
Maybe, but we're still a few years away from kids being able to tape up iPads inside their lockers.

Apple made a pretty big deal out of their new letterpress cards. I think they realize that there's still times when you wouldn't want to just e-mail someone a jpeg. We may be in Apple's brave new post-PC world, but the post-paper era is a ways off yet.

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