Bryan, it is ‘Picasa’ not Picassa (in headline) or Picasso (in text).

iPhoto is just frigging wonderful if you don’t want to take your Mac with you or pay for mobile.me. Why do any of you have any remaining positive thoughts about this jerk? I really don’t get it. He is first class a-hole right to the core. A customer pretty much tells Steve that he is interested in Steve’s greatest project of his life and that he wants to use it with another company’s product that he obviously has a lot of his content invested in, and Steve goes “not invented here” on him.

Just hope that the Photos app on the iPad permits one to create groupings.  It’s about time the i-device app did that (iPhone, IPT).  It’s a nuisance having to arrange things via iPhoto and iTunes.

How can any of us believe anything that anyone says comes from Jobs?

He is first class a-hole right to the core.

..and always has been.

Steve has the incredible fortunes of his foresight and being right most of the time.  But his way has always been THE way; nobody tells him otherwise.

Whether the good is worth the bad always was a legitimate concern.

Well, it’s nice to know that iPhoto on the Mac is so wonderful.  But it doesn’t really matter, since he was talking about the iPad.

So, funny thing, Steve’s solution to using a free service like Picasa is to buy a $599 Mac to go along with your $499 iPad.

Because the j*** (starred out due to our proxy server) is responsible for good products, that are still - despite restrictions - largely more practically useful than their competitors.
Gates, on the other hand, is (these days) a great philanthropist, and probably always been the nicer guy (despite Microsoft’s reputation), but always been rubbish at the product aspect.

Linus Torvalds is easily as egotistical as Jobs, and a complete j*** towards anyone who expresses criticism - but again, responsible for a fantastic product - within it’s limitations (i.e. he’s responsible for the Linux kernel, not the full operating system).
It’s not as if it’s an unreasonably rude reply - it’s a politic one. It’s like people who expected Nokia or HTC to honestly say that the iPhone was years ahead of their phones. Of course not - you dismiss the competition, and promote your own inferior product - while copying what they do.

Now I’d agree that mobile.me is probably the worst thing that Apple ever did (because it’s meant they haven’t focused on making iLife play well with popular free cloud services - until recently) but that also represents an opportunity for competition.

Hah. It’s just getting lamer and lamer. By the time it actually comes out it’ll do nothing but look pretty.

http://geekcomforts.com/2010/03/the-ipad-dilemma/

If you want Picasa on the iPad, write to Google, not Apple. Picasa is a web app and the iPad works well with web apps.

So veggiedude, can you explain how you upload pictures to Picasa using Safari on the iPad. That’s not so clear.