Below, Neven ponders iPhoto making its way to iOS and how precisely that will happen.

I really hope this does come to be.  I don’t use the Photos app very often on my iPad, but it is among the first things anyone else using my iPad wants to see in action.

The tactile interaction with images on the iPad really is the closest you can get to actual printed photos.  I suppose that’s why I want more of a photo management tool than a photo album - which is essentially what is there now.  Since I first loaded images on the iPad, I have wanted to use it to compare, sort and manage photos.

Like many parents, I snap lots of photos in succession just hoping to catch my son in some state of cuteness that is also suitably in focus (bonus points if the surrounding area doesn’t look like we reside in a landfill).  That means that I have lots of photos that are almost good. Flipping from one image to the next, resizing, rotating all takes milliseconds in iOS. Add in the ability to view images side-by-side and a delete button (perhaps a few other simple manipulation and editing tools) whose effect transferred back to my master iPhoto library and it would be a perfect tool for managing said library and separating the almost good from the truly good.

Also noteworthy, if you don’t have the iPad Camera Connection Kit, it is worth seeing the photo import process that it employs. It serves as yet another demonstration of Apple’s attention to details.

mrgan:

This week’s release of iMovie and GarageBand for iPad may well turn out to be a very important moment in consumer software. GarageBand in particular is a simply phenomenal app, going well above and beyond most people’s expectations for a creative/consumer app on a tablet. It’s not perfect, but…