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Will Apple Unveil iPhoto for iPad at Today’s iPad 3 Event?
Apple may unveil iPhoto for the iPad today at the iPad event, to take advantage of the Retina Display on the iPad 3, or iPad HD, as well as a rumored upgraded camera.
iMovie and GarageBand are already available for iOS, so it makes sense that Apple would release the third iLife suite on the iPad, and give users a better way to organize photos, especially now that iCloud brings all your photos to your iPad.
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Over at Daring Fireball John Gruber has three reasons iPhoto for iPad will be announced today, which I summarize below:
- With the other two iLife apps already on the iPad, it makes sense to see iPhoto, as I said above. He called it a “glaring omission”.
- Gruber asks, “… what sort of things are keeping regular people from using an iPad as their main computer?” He says that organizing photos might be the most obvious.
- The new high-resolution Retina Display should make iPhoto a beautiful new app.
After reading this, I wondered why others haven’t thought of this sooner. It just makes perfect sense. Citing Neven Mrgan, Gruber explained that because Apple added a new app with each major new iOS hardware announcement, it is safe to assume Apple will add a major new app today. If they do, then what else would be a more obvious option than an iPhoto for iOS? I can’t think of one!
One more reason to think Apple will add iPhoto to their iOS offerings – a better quality camera. Another one – AirPrint expansion. Put the two together and you get iPhoto.
Ordinary people like to print photos they take. As they grab snapshots with a high-quality iPad camera they can do simple edits to make them look even better and then print them to their wireless printer. When AirPrint first surfaced only a handful of HP printers supported the technology, but that number has grown.
Even if Gruber, Mrgan and I are wrong, you can still do some nice photo editing on your iPad thanks to the list of great iOS photo apps we shared recently. I believe Apple will be adding one more today.
