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Apple Ending Development on Aperture as Upcoming Photos App for OS X Will Replace iPhoto
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This is becoming my worry. Highlighted by a bug that prevents people from sending music to your iDevice (https://discussions.apple.com/message/26203547?ac_cid=tw123456). I just really don't want Apple products any more, and it's making me very sad.
Because Apple's Aperture group can't out innovate or even keep up with the competition. And they couldn't buy them obviously so Apple just gave up. Be warned, Apple users. This is only the beginning.
Yah Adobe needs to improve on Lightroom's cataloguing system if they want professionals to use it. Right now nobody that matters uses Lightroom. It's mostly for prosumers.
Google would never do this?
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What are you smoking? Google has a long history of creating and then abandoning projects! It's in their DNA to throw crap against the wall, see what sticks, and abandon the rest.
Troll elsewhere....
No, they are not abandoning photo editing completely. But they recognize there's going to be a lot of upset people thinking that they are, so they are being proactive and providing graceful transitions to other options. It's a mature way to handle it. For many people, consumers and semi-pros, the new Photos app will be more than enough for their needs.
Apple is all about letting go of the old to make room for the new. Gotta respect that.
Aperture will keep working for the next several years. It's not going to suddenly stop working. People don't need to panic here.
The sidecar is an option.
Apple has continued to sell expensive software to people knowing d@mn well they are not going to support it.
I don't think it's even video anymore, or so my brother said after he used the new Final Cut Pro.
Unless you bought a camera that came out in the last year, or buy a new one in the future.
I've never been overwhelmed by either LR or Aperature's method of organization. Any photo app, really. There's got to be a better way
So Lightroom sucks because it doesn't do something that you wished Aperture would do?
You missed the sarcasm tag
The sidecar is an option.
Apple has continued to sell expensive software to people knowing d@mn well they are not going to support it.
$80 is an expensive piece of software? Let's do the math. Professional photographers, which is the market it was serving, would make that back after ONE paid photo shoot.
They're only going to provide support through Yosemite. It's not guaranteed to work for next year's release of the OS.
Seems short-sighted. Sure, developing software may not be part of the core business, but for awhile it was the software that drove/allowed people to switch over.
Getting rid of the "pro" apps (Logic, Final Cut, Aperture) seems highly counterproductive, and YOY the quality seems to drop anyways. If there are no more "pro" apps that are Apple exclusive... why should studios use a mac? You can kit out your studio for a fraction of the price, with better connectivity and customization.
Relying on third parties can be a dangerous game too -- they can switch/drop support at any moment. Also, why waste the money/time invested to build a consumer base?
Getting rid of the "pro" apps (Logic, Final Cut, Aperture) seems highly counterproductive, and YOY the quality seems to drop anyways. If there are no more "pro" apps that are Apple exclusive... why should studios use a mac? You can kit out your studio for a fraction of the price, with better connectivity and customization.
Relying on third parties can be a dangerous game too -- they can switch/drop support at any moment. Also, why waste the money/time invested to build a consumer base?
I'm guessing yes. I think Apple is moving out of the non-OS related software game. There wasn't enough support from outside developers for Apple hardware initially, but now there is, so Apple probably feels it doesn't need to create software for its user anymore. It's disappointing. I'd rather see them spin off those divisions and allow them to flourish on their own than just discontinue them.
I wonder if Apple is working to get Lightroom on the App Store. If so, I hope part of this transition plan includes Apple fronting some of the costs of people moving from Aperture to Lightroom.
The new Photos App will in no way be a replacement for Aperture. If you need Aperture, you will have to get Lightroom. The "new" Photos App will not be much better, if at all any better, than the Photos App on your iPhone.
The fact that Apple is working with Adobe for a transition to Lightroom is proof of this. Adobe is no longer a competitor of Apple's in the serious photo editing space.
I wonder if they'll be a link inside Photo App to move a project to Lightroom for additional editing.
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What I do have a problem with is Adobe's subscription model and hope it doesn't apply to LR.
EDIT-- There are alternatives to Adobe, like Capture One and Pixelmator.
The new Photos App will in no way be a replacement for Aperture. If you need Aperture, you will have to get Lightroom. The "new" Photos App will not be much better, if at all any better, than the Photos App on your iPhone.
The fact that Apple is working with Adobe for a transition to Lightroom is proof of this. Adobe is no longer a competitor of Apple's in the serious photo editing space.
I wonder if they'll be a link inside Photo App to move a project to Lightroom for additional editing.
(EDIT)
What I do have a problem with is Adobe's subscription model and hope it doesn't apply to LR.
EDIT-- There are alternatives to Adobe, like Capture One and Pixelmator.
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I understand this. But I don't want to continue to use software for the 'next several years', in which it will no longer be updated and/or supported.
Unless you bought a camera that came out in the last year, or buy a new one in the future.
Wrong. Apple adds support for new cameras to the OS via software updates.