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Apple Ending Development on Aperture as Upcoming Photos App for OS X Will Replace iPhoto
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Love the panic based on a rumor without even seeing what the replacement is and its capabilities.
Everyone always panics and then Apple 1-ups the previous release.
Everyone always panics and then Apple 1-ups the previous release.
I don't want my pictures in the damn iCloud. I have nothing in the iCloud.
Change iPhoto to another app, fine. But don't waste my bandwidth.
You on dialup or what? You can probably turn it off ya know.
The difference here is that they've made the "Aperture is dead" announcement well before the "this is what Photos does" announcement.
For better or for worse, when Final Cut X came out we were TOLD what was in Final Cut X.
The way this news is coming out now (and not later with 10.10's launch) tells me that, no, Photos is not going to be any kind of replacement whatsoever.
We lose all the editing and categorizations in Aperture
I use Aperture every day and love the UI and metadata capabilities. There is no way I could manage my libraries without that metadata.
I wonder if any user metadata created in Aperture will be able to be migrated to Lightroom?
I was just at a FCPX conference. The Apple rep announced that they had surpassed 1.7 million "seats" (meaning copies being actively used) of FCPX. That's not too shabby and I don't think they'll be relinquishing the app any time soon.
I totally agree! I, like you, brought the first Apple computer to our campus in 1982. It has been a long road and I totally agree that Apple has forgotten its roots in an attempt to chase more income. This is the legacy of Tim Cook. He will chase the consumer products and forget the professionals on which Apple was founded.
Please don't Final Cut Pro X me here Apple. Just don't do it. Make this thing awesome, I beg of you.
You can give consumers what they think they want but not professional. Although then again. I do only use LightRoom and have not touched Aperture in a long time, so this won't really effect me but i did/do still use FCP 7 and will not touch FCPX with a 10 foot long stick.
You can give consumers what they think they want but not professional. Although then again. I do only use LightRoom and have not touched Aperture in a long time, so this won't really effect me but i did/do still use FCP 7 and will not touch FCPX with a 10 foot long stick.
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The funny thing about this whole saga is, until not too long ago we have been hearing about development on Aperture X.
Then all news about Aperture X disappeared.
And then suddenly Apple announces a new OS X Photos app, with fine controls built in.
Are these two apps the very same thing?
Then all news about Aperture X disappeared.
And then suddenly Apple announces a new OS X Photos app, with fine controls built in.
Are these two apps the very same thing?
ugh does that mean I'm going to actually have to use Lightroom now
I switched about a year ago and it was painful. I still miss the workflow in Aperture, but the tools are FAR better. Also in is a lot faster than aperture was. I eventually gave up that they would ever update it. Still Aperture was a good friend for a long time so I will miss it.
Must not be a lot of panic, then.
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Hey, aren't they offering 5GB of cloud storage?
I think the local liquor store gives out flash drives bigger than that as free promotional items.
Where did you see that screenshot? Link?
EDIT: Nevermind... found it in an article on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/ap...ture-and-transition-users-to-photos-for-os-x/
Not supported, no RAW compatibility for new camera models ok i guess if you have a fairly recent camera or don't change very often.
iLife has been dead for a while now, pretty much since they opened the Mac App Store and you could buy each app individually.
Don't forget about iDVD. They killed that off quite a while ago, too.
Because apple recent track record is to roll out something that has less features and say how much better it is when in fact its not.
Don't forget iWork, it did a lot less then the older versions.
Apple's new math, addition through subtraction.
I don't want my pictures in the damn iCloud. I have nothing in the iCloud.
Change iPhoto to another app, fine. But don't waste my bandwidth.
I'm the exact opposite. I want my entire photo collection to exist in iCloud. I'm hoping my iPhoto migration will be seamless and quick.
Apple doesn't provide much software for professionals anymore.
Now I begin to wonder when we will actually hear that Apple will be switching from Intel to their own Axx Arm processors. Meaning that those rumors turn out to be true.
Give it one to two years from now and the MBP's will become like iPads with a keyboards running iOS. Might well be that OS X 10.10 Yosemite is the last real version of OS X.
What a horrible foresight.
However I am slowly see the need to start investigating if Windows is still so bad as when I left it.
Now I begin to wonder when we will actually hear that Apple will be switching from Intel to their own Axx Arm processors. Meaning that those rumors turn out to be true.
Give it one to two years from now and the MBP's will become like iPads with a keyboards running iOS. Might well be that OS X 10.10 Yosemite is the last real version of OS X.
What a horrible foresight.
However I am slowly see the need to start investigating if Windows is still so bad as when I left it.
Actually I'm not a fan of Aperture. I've experienced a lot of problems with it. I think it's time to move to the future with a new application that is centred around taking advantage of cloud computing.