{"id":16429,"date":"2010-06-11T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/06\/of-lightroom-ipads-and-muffins.html"},"modified":"2010-06-11T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T10:33:34","slug":"of_lightroom_ipads_and_muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/11\/of_lightroom_ipads_and_muffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Lightroom, iPads, and muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/01\/if_adobe_did_an_ipad_app.html\">asking customers<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/05\/feedback_please_psd_viewing_on_ipads.html\">possible Adobe tablet apps<\/a>, I&#8217;m reminded of the experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=1058\">trying to get our toddler to count bites of dinner<\/a> en route to a chocolate muffin:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Mom: &#8220;Okay, what number comes before six?&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Finn: &#8220;Muffin!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Mom: &#8220;Five&#8230;then what&#8217;s next? Not three but&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Finn: &#8220;Muffin!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like this:<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;So, we&#8217;re thinking of building app X&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>Everyone: &#8220;Lightroom!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;Yes, cool, we hear you.  But back to X&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Everyone: &#8220;Lightroom!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: &#8220;Right, I <em>know<\/em>, but&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Everyone: &#8220;Lightroom!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I find this kind of charming and encouraging.  Building a great iPad app for mobile photo review, editing, and sharing is (presently) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robgalbraith.com\/bins\/content_page.asp?cid=7-10052-10708\">tougher than one might think<\/a>, but customer desire is very clear.  (Feedback about non-LR\/photography workflow apps is welcome, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asking customers about possible Adobe tablet apps, I&#8217;m reminded of the experience of trying to get our toddler to count bites of dinner en route to a chocolate muffin: Mom: &#8220;Okay, what number comes before six?&#8221; Finn: &#8220;Muffin!&#8221; Mom: &#8220;Five&#8230;then what&#8217;s next? Not three but&#8230;&#8221; Finn: &#8220;Muffin!&#8221; It&#8217;s like this: Me: &#8220;So, we&#8217;re thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,3,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}