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Apple Acquires Photo Editing App Maker Pixelmator

nostradumbass said:
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.
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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.
 
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!
 
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!)
 
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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).
 
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)
 
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bice said:
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)
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I would gladly pay for a ‘new’ app vs Pixelmator getting rolled into Apples terrible Photos app.
 
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bice said:
There has been no news and the pixemator.com site still says "exciting updates to come".
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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.
 
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Algr said:
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.
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about the only people I know still using Adobe are corporate based, and even those are looking at options....
 
10 months have passed. Are we still expecting "exciting news to come"?

Development is mainly infrequent "bug fixes and improvements", blog hasn't been updated at all, most of the support pages have neither.

I am still left wondering what the expected lifetime of Pixelmator pro and photomator is.

Maybe the exciting news will arrive on the 12 months mark and be:
"The timelock on our golden handcuffs have finally opened and the entire team is now excited to start this new phase in our lives. So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. "
 
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It’s saddening really how pretty much all feature updates dried up the second Apple took over with no news to look forward to.
 
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bice said:
10 months have passed. Are we still expecting "exciting news to come"?

Development is mainly infrequent "bug fixes and improvements", blog hasn't been updated at all, most of the support pages have neither.

I am still left wondering what the expected lifetime of Pixelmator pro and photomator is.

Maybe the exciting news will arrive on the 12 months mark and be:
"The timelock on our golden handcuffs have finally opened and the entire team is now excited to start this new phase in our lives. So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. "
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These things take time. If they’re updating the Photos app with new features then it may likely be the marquis feature of OS27. If they’re essentially relaunching Pixelmator as Aperture it will likely be in a bundled Pro subscription with Final Cut and Logic. They may be looking to piggyback this years’ pick for a hardware refresh during Mac Week in the winter.
 
How does Pixelmator compare to the likes of Illustrator?

I purchased Affinity Designer hoping it would replace Illustrator, but it isn’t quite there yet.
 
bice said:
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish. "
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My favourite American saying!

Yeah, really sad about about it. Although there were good acquisitions as well.

iTunes, nee SoundJam MP
FileMaker, nee Nashoba Systems
NeXT (OSX)
Bluefish Labs & SchemaSoft (iWork)
Nothing Real (Shake)
Zayante (FireWire)
Propel Software (Safari)
FingerWorks (iOS, sorta)
Siri

Some because really good products, like FileMaker. Too bad it's not bundled with iWork and free with a new Mac. Alas, $549 or some such.
 
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Hank001 said:
Some because really good products, like FileMaker. Too bad it's not bundled with iWork and free with a new Mac. Alas, $549 or some such.
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I hear you. I think Apple should have kept Bento and developed it as part of AppleWorks, with FMP being the equivalent of FinalCut as the premium DB product. That would have given Apple a complete productivity suite to ship with each Mac.
 
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jlc1978 said:
I hear you. I think Apple should have kept Bento and developed it as part of AppleWorks, with FMP being the equivalent of FinalCut as the premium DB product. That would have given Apple a complete productivity suite to ship with each Mac.
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I so freaking miss Bento! It was just too simple to use, so ahead of its time. Well, there is Noco and the like. Still, no comparison.
 
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Hank001 said:
I so freaking miss Bento! It was just too simple to use, so ahead of its time. Well, there is Noco and the like. Still, no comparison.
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Just this past weekend, I was thinking of downloading a copy of Bento to revive my old iMac G4.

Thanks for referencing Noco...I had a look and it could be a more robust/faster option should my needs grow.
 
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