iPhoto the next iApp likely to go cross platform
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 29, 2004 at 12:30am
I think iPhoto is the next iApp that will be offered for PC users (the first being iTunes, of course). Here’s my reasoning.
Earlier this week those who watched Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ hosting the special event in which the iPod Photo, iPod U2 Special Edition and the European Union version of the iTunes Music Store saw Steve Jobs delivering a keynote address using Keynote, Apple’s presentation software— but with effects that are apparently only available in Mac OS X (“Tiger”) using Core Image. Core Image, according to Apple, is a feature of Tiger that “unlocks the performance of today’s powerful graphics hardware” and builds “ultra-fast, pixel-accurate image processing” right into Tiger.
Second, for PCs, iPod Photo syncs with My Photos folder. So rolling out a Windows version of iPhoto seems to be the next logical step.
Sure, it will help sell iPod Photo devices, but it’s the iTunes/iPod halo effect once more
Every PC user using iTunes will, I’m sure, download iPhoto even if they don’t have an iPod Photo.
I don’t think Apple needs to convince people to buy iPods (heck, they’re selling ‘em as fast as they can make ‘em), but they want people to slowly migrate to Apple’s applications until the only thing left is the operating system and the computer hardware. And from there the next step is moving to Mac OS X on Apple hardware.
It’s the Trojan Horse effect once more. And, though I don’t want all (or even most) of Apple’s software to go PC, I’m all for it.
What do you think? Write me at daseller@earthlink.net
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
