P: Lightroom app for tablets (iPad, iOS, Android)

"Such devices are no longer frivolous toys ... but quickly becoming useful and powerful tools that can enhance and benefit an image workflow"

Not so much. The 7-year-old PC I just retired is capable of 10 times the processing performance of the original iPad, and over 3 times the performance of the iPad 2. The computer I replaced it with is capable of over 15 times the performance of my old machine.

With pixel counts continually going up, processing performance has a long way to go before these portable machines get to a tolerable level for doing significant raw processing on the "thousands of files" model around which Lightroom was designed.

Lightroom is power-hungry. PS can do lots of things on a single image without a lot of processing horsepower because it's pixel-based. That's why that application is more well-suited to use on these under-powered devices. I'll say it again - Lightroom is power-hungry.

"why add iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry OS" ... because that is where the market is trending ...

The Ford Model T was a wonderful solid vehicle ... however, technology and the marketplace evolved to the point that made it less than welcome with the average customer ... they wanted more ... they wanted different ... and were willing to pay for it ...

While I agree that the current offerings of tablets from a hardware standpoint will have to expand and improve to offer full functionality for Lr ... it's only a matter of a short time frame until it will be sufficient to get the job done ... better Adobe should be prepared for that eventuality ... instead of behind times trying to catch up with competitors ...

Adobe is already embracing tablet usage offering several apps that have become quite popular with users ... and rightly so ... considering there is just under 20 million iPads in use already with nearly that many expected to be sold by the end of 2011 ...

Such devices are no longer frivolous toys ... but quickly becoming useful and powerful tools that can enhance and benefit an image workflow ... I'd hate to see Adobe miss the boat on this one as there are considerable benefits for both the developers and end users to reap ...

And next all the other tablets? All the smart phones? The Motorola Atrix with dock? Netbooks are already closest (and some already run LR), why not those?

There are very view things I can think of to have the team work on that are more distracting and less useful than this one. They already have to support XP, Vista, Win7, 32-bit, 64-bit, MacOS 10.5 and 10.6, why add iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry OS and Linux? They have plenty of other stuff to do than support devices that don't have enough processing performance, storage, screen real-estate or input devices to handle raw image processing and management Lightroom style.

Then you should take a look at Photosmith ... it's not an Adobe effort ... but designed to work with Lr and could be available soon.

http://blog.photosmithapp.com/

And Shuttersnitch:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/mult...

and the new EyeFi update for transmitting photos from camera to iPad wirelessly without an adhoc WiFi:

http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/cont...