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Apple Acquires Photo Editing App Maker Pixelmator

Remy149 said:
A lot of their software was from acquisition even the original iTunes
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Absolutely.

The biggies ...

Mac OS X - NeXT
Apple Silicon - PA Semi

Plus, all of the good stuff.

Final Cut Pro/iMovie - Macromedia
DVD Studio Pro - Astarte
Logic/Garageband - eMagic

iTunes - SoundJam
Keynote - Lightstream Design (NeXT Developer)
Pages - Claris

Siri, App Store, Face ID, Touch ID, iTunes Match, Maps, etc. were all acquisitions (or made up of) too
 
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Good luck to them. It was great having that alternative around even though I've never had it used for it. After the final cut 7 pro debacle many years back I swore off all Apple apps and I don't use any of them. I don't trust apple and I definitely don't trust thier secrecy when it comes to changes and edits and features.

I personally have all of my services connected to third parties so if apple is decides to do something funky has no effect on me. No I chats, no keynotes, no Final cut nothing I'm doing fine.

Meanwhile Adobe is trying to knock out procreate from the market.

Now Apple is buying these guys. At the end of the day Adobe is in the middle sweating in between canva and apple now. Making Adobe sweat is good.
 
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sniffies said:
Would’ve loved to see Aperture get resurrected.

But I’m not mad about this acquisition at all. Not at all.
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I’m happy for the devs but I’m worried for us users. My usual reaction when I see that something I use and like has been acquired is “oh crap” because decades of history shows us that it’s usually a bad thing for the actual product.

All depends on what Apple plans to do with it.
 
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viettanium said:
bring back Aperture Pro on Apple Silicon!
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I too was an Aperture user - and liked it a lot. It had warts (let's not forget the large scale album handling) but on the whole, an awesome app for its time.

As I understand it, Aperture required pretty much a wholesale rewrite for the new OS when 32bit was sunset. And thus we got photos. It's ok, for what it is, but it is no pro application.
 
cambookpro said:
Why? I agree the Affinity suite is great - I’m a happy user of all their apps, but they’ve also been acquired (by Canva) and the future of the software - especially the one time purchase model - is just as uncertain.

I’d argue Apple are better placed to keep the app business model as-is than Canva are with Affinity.
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I have Affinty, Luminar, and Pixelmator. I'm actually looking at Luminar Neo as my next purchase.
 
To me, a platform is at is best when the Vendor (Apple in this case) is focused on enabling the most vibrant third party developer ecosystem it can. That includes tools, support, APIs and, crucially, business terms that best support that.

Just doing the "gobble & hobble" (gobbling up good software, hobbling it and/or killing it after acquihire) is the worst course in my view.

I don't want any part of some future where Apple has ALL the control and the vibrant ecosystem is nuked and everyone is just using whatever shovelware Apple decides to ship or gimped things they reluctantly allow (also known as the Mac App Store)

That's the "bicycle for the mind", pre-assembled, with all the parts welded and glued together.
Take it or leave it... Here's your Apple Bicycle
 
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TMRJIJ said:
I’ve been using Pixelmator Pro ever since its release in 2017, and I absolutely love it. I hope Apple allows this team to take the app to the next level. Perhaps they could even invest more in the Photos app as well.
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Has Apple ever, even once allowed this to happen? Every time they buy a software company it vanishes along with its products. This trend started with "NeXT Computer". Much of Apple's apps are products that were bought by Apple, like Logic, Siri and even MacOS.

OK, there is always a chance this could be a new first for Apple. But I fully expect Pixelmator will be gone within a year or so. This is what happens EVERY time. Not "sometimes" but every time.
 
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krspkbl said:
Disappointing.

Check out Affinity products.
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ehhhh they got bought by Canva, and on that note their days are numbered.... I own all their products, if Apple had bought Affinity sentiment would be different...

This move from Apple is a power move.
 
bladerunner88 said:
Same still on Big Sur - Somehow music just sounds more alive in iTunes than "Music"
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For me I just liked that iTunes was still mainly geared about my local library (due to it's origin and history) and it just felt actually native

Apple Music just feels like software that was trying to copy Apple or something
It feels an attempt at a cheap imitation of actually good software

I absolutely hate interacting with it
 
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Better buy it now before it disappears from the App Store and comes back as part of Apple One next year. . .
 
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