2010-02-02
post/367094485
quote 16:11:00
“ During the iPad keynote, four of the most impressive (and in-depth) demos were content-creation apps: Brushes and the iWork trio. There is no doubt in my mind that some rendition of iLife will launch within a year on the iPad platform ”
Steven Johnson in his article for Time: Apple iPad Shortcomings Spark Questions About Updates.
I suspect that iWork was, on some levels, a bad choice of software to demonstrate. iMovie feels creative to people, whereas Numbers and Pages don’t, even though I’d place bets on there being more published novels written in Pages than there have been big-screen films produced in iMovie.
Apart from iLife (and other media tools), the other missing link in creativity is a programming environment, but I also expect that to show up eventually (although maybe it’ll be more like Dashcode or Coda than Xcode; we’ll see.) Certainly, I can’t see a reason the iPad should be treated as a read-only device.
(Bonus points for the OpenDoc references, by the way.)
