Apple Acquires Photo Editing App Maker Pixelmator

[ducknalddon]

Those are called background processes and dependencies ffs. Most of the major applications and operating systems use this. Save your energy arguing on the internets if you don't know how software works.

Most client facing apps don't need them, in the case of Adobe apps it's about DRM rather than anything that benefits the user.

 

[J InTech82]

Pixelmator is a pretty big app, with a pretty good userbase. Photomator was starting to gain a little traction as well. I would be very surprised if Apple sherlocked both of them, after all, why? When they have the opportunity to do some damage against Adobe if they keep the apps around and add even more features to them!

 

[timehawk]

I much prefer to use Photomator as the photo manager, over the Mac Photos app. Photomator gives better sorting (by Modified Date) so it’s easier to keep track of your latest efforts.

Photomator exports easily to Pixelmator to do more powerful editing. Returning back to Photomator requires only clicking Pixelmator’s File / Modify Original in Photos.

As a photographer who has struggled with Apple’s photo management constraints, finding Photomator and Pixelmator for Mac has been very positive. (I.e. Apple, DO NOT mess this up!)

 

[sputnikBA]

I can see Photomator’s features & design being folded into the Photos app, while Pixelmator Pro remains a standalone app (Possibly a rebrand but part of me hopes they’ll keep the name too).

 

[bice]

There has been no news and the pixemator.com site still says "exciting updates to come".

What is the take on any licenses? Will all lifetime license holders be grandfathered in to a new Apple owned app or will they just restart, launch the code under a slightly different name and ask everyone to pay again?
(They've done exactly that in the past - I had a lifetime license on the original Pixelmator and they stopped develop it, released it on apple store under a new name and charged again for)

 

[AlumaMac]

There has been no news and the pixemator.com site still says "exciting updates to come".

What is the take on any licenses? Will all lifetime license holders be grandfathered in to a new Apple owned app or will they just restart, launch the code under a slightly different name and ask everyone to pay again?
(They've done exactly that in the past - I had a lifetime license on the original Pixelmator and they stopped develop it, released it on apple store under a new name and charged again for)

I would gladly pay for a ‘new’ app vs Pixelmator getting rolled into Apples terrible Photos app.

 

[Algr]

There has been no news and the pixemator.com site still says "exciting updates to come".

Gah! Over two months later. At least they could tell us why Apple wanted to do this?

I'd love to have an AI generator like DrawThings built into Pixelmator. But I fear Apple is too woke and stuffy to do this.

Would Apple really want to go head-to-head with Adobe? Corporate lock-in is something Apple knows well, and it makes quality software irrelevant. Why fight that battle? Apple is better off playing the lock-in game themselves.

 

[bobone]

Gah! Over two months later. At least they could tell us why Apple wanted to do this?

I'd love to have an AI generator like DrawThings built into Pixelmator. But I fear Apple is too woke and stuffy to do this.

Would Apple really want to go head-to-head with Adobe? Corporate lock-in is something Apple knows well, and it makes quality software irrelevant. Why fight that battle? Apple is better off playing the lock-in game themselves.

about the only people I know still using Adobe are corporate based, and even those are looking at options....

 

[buggz]

+1 this!

I would gladly pay for a ‘new’ app vs Pixelmator getting rolled into Apples terrible Photos app.