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News - 04/26/2006
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Kodak aims for iPod-like simplicity
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 Eastman Kodak demonstrated some of the products Tuesday that it says will transform digital photography the way Apple's iPod changed how we listen to music.
For all of its mind-boggling advances — such as letting users know instantly whether they got the shot and being able to send pictures across the world at the click of a mouse — digital photography makes you work. Hard.
Just ask yourself: How many digital images are quietly sitting on hard drives around the world, carrying strange file names such as 1000014a.jpg, perhaps never to be seen by the naked eye again?
Your answer?
Too many, is Eastman Kodak Co.'s answer.
Correct!
The opportunity is there for a revolution in picture-taking habits, similar to what happened when the iPod made it easy and popular for people to carry their favorite songs on devices in their back pockets, Kodak said.
Before the iPod, music was locked up in CDs played on home stereos or awkward portable players, and the industry was struggling with low growth rates. Since then, "consumption of music has skyrocketed," said Schaeffer.
How true!!!
Ok, this is not about iPod really, but it's about digital life so... read on...
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Source:  Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
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