Showed a client portfolios on an iPad today – not so good

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This afternoon, for the first time, Greg brought our new iPad to a meeting with a prospective client. Before he left, I loaded it up with a few new portfolios that I had created specifically for that client. And that’s how I discovered some serious limitations of this device.

The basic issue is that Apple has conceived of the iPad as something that relies on having a computer around all the time to sync with, whereas I want to use my iPad as a stand-alone device. I want to add and remove content to it as needed, but I certainly don’t want to stuff my entire photo library on there – that’s a laughable idea. Since there’s no USB port or card reader, I had to sync it with a computer in order to get content onto it. I’ve got it set up to sync with my laptop, which is of course not where we store Greg’s archives, but it will only sync with one computer. So first I had to load the photos I wanted onto a jump drive, then upload them onto my laptop, then sync the iPad with the laptop to get them on there. OK, I can live with that, but here’s the real problem:

I tried to do a manual sync and load the albums one by one, but when I loaded the second one, it erased the first one. Turns out, when you do a manual sync, you have to sync *everything* that you want to keep on the iPad, otherwise the new content just overwrites the old content. So you have to sync the new content *and* the old content. This is a huge pain from the POV of a photographer, because for instance, that special album I just made for that client – I don’t want to keep that on my laptop. But if I don’t keep it on my laptop, I won’t be able to keep it on my iPad.

Another issue was that in addition to showing the clients the iPad albums, they asked to see some web content, and that website wasn’t optimized for the iPad. Ick.

Score one for just bringing along a laptop.

-Michelle

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