{"id":18347,"date":"2013-09-02T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2013-09-02T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T15:01:16","slug":"the-sleeper-hit-in-ios7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/02\/the-sleeper-hit-in-ios7\/","title":{"rendered":"The sleeper hit in iOS7 (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update: I’m not taking about making it possible<\/em> to transfer photos wirelessly to iPads\/iPhones. That kind of works today, but it’s laborious. I’m talking about making it Just Work.]<\/p>\n

For the last 3+ years, customers have clubbed me over the head<\/a> with the following request:<\/p>\n

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I want to go on a hike, vacation, etc. and toss my iPad in my bag. I want to pair my nice camera (SLR, Micro 4\/3rds, etc.) with the iPad just as easily as I could any Bluetooth device. As I shoot (or later), I want to beam my raw files right into the iPad. I want to review those images on a 10″ rather than a 2″ screen. I want to swipe through to pick the good ones & hide the crap. I might want to apply some edits & share the output directly, but when I get home, I want all the images & their edits appear in Lightroom, ready for any further work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I want that, too. Everyone<\/em> wants that. Could we finally be getting there?<\/p>\n

AirDrop in iOS7<\/a> makes it easy to have nearby iOS devices share photos and videos. Will this extend to pairing cameras with iPhones & iPads, particularly if the former support Wi-Fi Direct<\/a>? I don’t know\u2014but man, my fingers are going blue from being crossed so long. (Meanwhile we’re not just sitting around<\/a>, either.)<\/p>\n

In tangentially related news, it’s rumored that Sony is about to announce “lens cameras<\/a>” that connect to & augment smartphones, communicating via Wi-Fi. They promise to combine more powerful optics with immediate access to processing & sharing.<\/p>\n

It’ll be fascinating to see how all this plays out. Here’s hoping Apple is working to extend the connective tissue & help make things seamless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update: I’m not taking about making it possible to transfer photos wirelessly to iPads\/iPhones. That kind of works today, but it’s laborious. I’m talking about making it Just Work.] For the last 3+ years, customers have clubbed me over the head with the following request: I want to go on a hike, vacation, etc. and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347"}],"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=18347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}