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Adobe Releases Plugin to Help Aperture Users Transition to Lightroom

Once it was clear Apple would discontinue Aperture I gave Lightroom and Capture One another try. I simply can't stand Lightroom and prefer not to do business with Adobe.
Capture One on the other hand first didn't convince me but the latest 8.0 release is better and also offers a direct Aperture library import that works quiet well. Using the trial version of Capture One I started to notice all those things that Aperture didn't offer and am probably going to migrate soon.
Even if the the photo app can replace Aperture, I doubt it will offer the features we are now already missing.
 
FieldingMellish said:
Adobe'd gotten too expensive for the casual user with its subscription plan. It's as financially ignominious as a cable company.
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Math is hard for you I guess?

I pay $10 a month for Photoshop and Lightroom and have updates... Forever.

I used to pay $650 for an individual copy of Photoshop at the cheapest. That's more than 5 years of the subscription version, at which point, I'm actually getting constant updates (versus paying another $200-300 for the next CS update) and I get whole other program.
 
britboyj said:
Math is hard for you I guess?

I pay $10 a month for Photoshop and Lightroom and have updates... Forever.

I used to pay $650 for an individual copy of Photoshop at the cheapest. That's more than 5 years of the subscription version, at which point, I'm actually getting constant updates (versus paying another $200-300 for the next CS update) and I get whole other program.
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That's your reading comprehension failing you. In your zeal to make some kind if point, you neglected to comprehend the word casual.
 
netwalker said:
Once it was clear Apple would discontinue Aperture I gave Lightroom and Capture One another try. I simply can't stand Lightroom and prefer not to do business with Adobe.
Capture One on the other hand first didn't convince me but the latest 8.0 release is better and also offers a direct Aperture library import that works quiet well. Using the trial version of Capture One I started to notice all those things that Aperture didn't offer and am probably going to migrate soon.
Even if the the photo app can replace Aperture, I doubt it will offer the features we are now already missing.
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Apple will point you to the Mac App Store, where you'll rely on many developers filling the holes of things you need.

As soon as the first apps get discontinued, there's one part of your non-destructive edits gone.
Then the next, the next, ...

That's why I hate the plug-in excuse.

"Hey, have more dependencies, here, have them all, we give you the most bare solution and you fill the holes!"

I started using Macs many years ago and one of the reasons was that you could fill so many needs with Apple software in an elegant, horizontally integrated and functional way.
The pro applications being really well built for the most part, something Apple was praised a lot for, also a reason they got so much footprint, also the reason pros supported them in their darkest times, when consumers would have already left.

They totally bank on consumers now, and only them it seems.

See OS X Server?
I'm surprised it even got a new major version. Heck, I'm even surprised they still charge for it.
The writing's on the wall, they don't offer "server hardware" anymore (I'm not even talking about XServe, but the Mac Mini in Server configuration).

I'd be very wary of deploying OS X Server these days.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
I don't know that Apple were known historically for their Pro software other than their operating system; they provided a Wysiwyg platform that transformed the creative fields, in particular publishing, but the software enabling this revolution was all third-party. Even Postscript and hence the foundation of TrueType is an Adobe technology. Adobe pushed pro Postscript fonts to users through all their software requiring Adobe Type Manager to be installed, since Apple and Microsoft declined paying Adobe's hefty licence fees and developed TrueType instead.
The only Pro software historically I can think of by Apple is FileMaker, and that is through a separate spinoff company. Pro creative software competing with Adobe seems a far more recent thing, they didn't like Adobe's shift to serving Windows since Apple's near-death, they want to give creatives a reason to buy premium Apple hardware, and Adobe had let Premier wither for too long, focusing on other things. The people behind Final Cut were ex-Adobe Premier developers after all.
At the same time, they have to be careful not to piss Adobe off or undermine them too much, as Apple relies on them. Aperture was developed to fill a need before they knew Adobe was doing the same thing. It was an idea whose time had come, hardware was powerful enough, and digital pro photographers had a great need for it not properly served by just Photoshop. Now that this niche is served pretty well by Lightroom, there is less need for Apple to concentrate on pro photographers.
Maybe Apple should emulate their Filemaker success and spin off all their Pro creative software into a separate creative software company, that would serve to assure the pros shaken a bit by this and the rollout of Final Cut Pro X and Apple's total reluctance to keep pros informed of what is going on.
 
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