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Apple Ending Development on Aperture as Upcoming Photos App for OS X Will Replace iPhoto
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You apparently haven't used FCPX lately, then. Sure, they fumbled the initial release, but it's pretty awesome now with the updates they've made.
Apple has sure its reasons for doing that. If the new Photos.app provides nice, advanced editing and organization tools, then I am ok with that.
I can understand though that this is disappointing for pros that work with Aperture.
Apple should always remember how it all began.
I can understand though that this is disappointing for pros that work with Aperture.
Apple should always remember how it all began.
Not me, my photos number in the hundreds of gigbytes, there's no way I want that on the cloud. Also what happens if Apple suddenly had an issue with their servers. You're trusting in their back up methodology. I'd rather put my faith in my backups.
Photos is definitely not going to be able to replace Aperture for the pro user.
The biggest problem Photos is going to have is the 1TB iCloud limit.
Pro photographers have 10's of terabytes of photo data in their archives.
If they can figure out the high-end archival requirements (maybe a $500/yr option), and if they can implement the asset-management/keywording, and perhaps plugin capability, then it MIGHT be able to replace Aperture.
But, i really doubt Apple is going to offer more than 1TB of iCloud storage.
Your loss. Seriously. If you are just going by what you've heard, or if it's been a while since you've tried FCPX, you are missing out. Especially since the FCPX 10.1.1 update. They have a free trial you can download.
Damn it. Could never get on with Lightroom but looks like i'm going to have to learn to use it properly.
From what I saw of the new photo app it looked fairly basic so not going to be anything close to Aperture. This decision sucks.
From what I saw of the new photo app it looked fairly basic so not going to be anything close to Aperture. This decision sucks.
That's going to upset a lot of people!!
I remember when Aperture came out. I didn't get it because I didn't want to commit to another Apple app that they'd soon just give up on like they'd recently done with iWeb.
I was right to do so.
When I saw this announcement on MacRumors my heart sank. I am an adventure photographer that uses Aperture extensively at least 4-5 days a week. I've been with the program since it came out and this is very upsetting news to me. I highly doubt the "Photos App for the Cloud" will be a professional application.
I've spent a lot of money on Aperture in terms of plugins and training. My polished workflow (and food that I put on the table) is centered around it.
Off to work where I will be processing and delivering photos today on a very tight timeline. Well, at least for now. Grrr....
Bryan
I really feel for those people who use this for their pro work, like any tool thats lost its a real pain to replace and learn another program. Apple you are really pushing it and is there really any point in owning a Mac anymore any decent programs are all third party anyway.
Well this is *********. I have a ton of money in Aperture plugins...hopefully the companies that make those will provide a cheap/free upgrade path. And hopefully the new Photos app on Yosemite supports plugins.
Hell has to freeze over until I ever buy a Windows machine again. Lightroom was already much better anyway.
Time to say goodbye, but not to my Mac.
I think Apple's strategy is slowly becoming quite clear. Whilst they've openly said they'll never (or at least have no plans to) merge iOS and Mac OS, they're clearly borrowing a lot of (accidental) successful strategy from iOS.
iOS works because it does the basic OS really well, and leaves anything more detailed or 'featured' to the App developers. This move suggests Apple may be heading in the same direction with Mac OS, moving to focus on just providing a solid OS platform which does integration and the basics really well and leave the more featured and heavier applications to the specialists.
Makes much more sense - means they can pool more resource into their core product and stop chasing minuscule market share at great expense from big players like Adobe.
And lets not forget, Apple have only ceased development. It's not going to stop working tomorrow, so there is plenty of time for anyone professional or not to evaluate and plan their move to other software.
iOS works because it does the basic OS really well, and leaves anything more detailed or 'featured' to the App developers. This move suggests Apple may be heading in the same direction with Mac OS, moving to focus on just providing a solid OS platform which does integration and the basics really well and leave the more featured and heavier applications to the specialists.
Makes much more sense - means they can pool more resource into their core product and stop chasing minuscule market share at great expense from big players like Adobe.
And lets not forget, Apple have only ceased development. It's not going to stop working tomorrow, so there is plenty of time for anyone professional or not to evaluate and plan their move to other software.
The fact that the TextEdit icon in Yosemite eliminates the "Here's to the crazy ones" text that was in the Mavericks-and-below TextEdit icon seems to support this sentiment. Sad, indeed.
How do you know that? Have you used Photos before? We've barely seen it in action, there's no way to judge its full potential.
The Loop was talking about Photos being the 'new platform'. It may very well be that Photos will be the stepping stone for a completely new professional photography app, just like how FCPX was based on iMovie.
Lack of competition is more a reason to not bother upping their game. Just kick back and wait for unsupported Aperture users to migrate.
Same reason I dislike Adobe's subscription model - if they can convince people to subscribe, where's their incentive to develop and enhance their software? At least the purchase/upgrade route forces them to stay on their toes.
Can I get a refund on my 2014 Mac Pro?
My first thought was, well, okay, I bought the newest version of Aperture for $79 about a year ago. Can still use it for another year if I want to before deciding what to do. Then, I thought, didn't Apple say they were upgrading their Pro apps to take advantage of the new architecture (e.g. two GPUs) in the 2014 Mac Pro? Well, yes, they did, which is 90% of the reason I bought one (to use it for photography). I could have gotten by with a new iMac, but based my decision partly on Apple's promises. I can't remember what kind of language was used, but the class action lawyers might want to take a look at whether there might be some kind of lawsuit here.
I am also bummed because I spent about two weeks last winter going through the Apple Certified Training Book for Aperture. Wasted time now.
Lastly, I DO NOT WANT TO MOVE TO LIGHTROOM!!!!! The application might be better than Aperture. I don't know. What I do know is that I had a paid license to use Photoshop CS5, and then Adobe released the subscription model for CS6 and forward. Then, low and behold, about 4 months later, my version of Photoshop simply stopped working. Stopped working on my iMac and my MacBook Pro. No reason, just stopped. On both. At the same time. Ummm..... No fix. No explanation. Error message literally said something like "Unknown Error." and then quit. Went to Adobe for support. Basic answer seemed to be: get Photoshop CS6, and join the new subscription world. No thanks.
I love my Mac Pro. Right now, though, I do not love Apple. I also do not love Adobe. What to do now?
My first thought was, well, okay, I bought the newest version of Aperture for $79 about a year ago. Can still use it for another year if I want to before deciding what to do. Then, I thought, didn't Apple say they were upgrading their Pro apps to take advantage of the new architecture (e.g. two GPUs) in the 2014 Mac Pro? Well, yes, they did, which is 90% of the reason I bought one (to use it for photography). I could have gotten by with a new iMac, but based my decision partly on Apple's promises. I can't remember what kind of language was used, but the class action lawyers might want to take a look at whether there might be some kind of lawsuit here.
I am also bummed because I spent about two weeks last winter going through the Apple Certified Training Book for Aperture. Wasted time now.
Lastly, I DO NOT WANT TO MOVE TO LIGHTROOM!!!!! The application might be better than Aperture. I don't know. What I do know is that I had a paid license to use Photoshop CS5, and then Adobe released the subscription model for CS6 and forward. Then, low and behold, about 4 months later, my version of Photoshop simply stopped working. Stopped working on my iMac and my MacBook Pro. No reason, just stopped. On both. At the same time. Ummm..... No fix. No explanation. Error message literally said something like "Unknown Error." and then quit. Went to Adobe for support. Basic answer seemed to be: get Photoshop CS6, and join the new subscription world. No thanks.
I love my Mac Pro. Right now, though, I do not love Apple. I also do not love Adobe. What to do now?
Photos won't be usable because iCloud is limited to 1TB of storage.
Photo professionals use much more than that.
With several newly built server farms and Apple being the wealthiest tech company in the world, I'll trust them more than me and just my Mac and my Time Capsule.
However, I can understand how it wouldn't work for you. My photo collection is only a little over 5GB.
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