Apple Wanted to Buy Halide to Boost iPhone 18 Pro's Camera App—Now There's a Lawsuit

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Jealousy?

 

[sergekills]

So glad Apple didn't buy Halide!
Superior camera app that makes iPhone photos look good compared to built-in Camera app.

 

[relaxedpanda]

Sebastian de With is honestly such a douche bag, none of this surprises me one bit.

His ego has long been due to be checked.

 

[ELand-SX70]

How does this app compare to, say, Adobe Indigo?

 

[Pepperfection]

Reminds me of Ninja Turtles creators.

 

[jlc1978]

de With seems to spend a ridiculous amount of money traveling.

It doesn’t take many first class flights and 5 star hotels to hit that number in a year.

 

[JoeSilver]

After the free trial week, I couldn't find a reason to subscribe or buy Halide. While I appreciate the possibility of bypassing the "Fusion" postprocessing, I found its results underwhelming. It seems as if its photos need to be edited anyway, manually, with some other software. I'd rather grab my camera then.

 

[jz0309]

talking about a relationship gone sour ... and I am sure there is way more to this than what we hear about here.

I was looking forward to the new version of the app, but now its RIP Halide, too bad

 

[now i see it]

Humans misbehaving as usual. There’s no escape

 

[sergekills]

talking about a relationship gone sour ... and I am sure there is way more to this than what we hear about here.

I was looking forward to the new version of the app, but now its RIP Halide, too bad

you think Mark III isn't coming?

 

[jz0309]

you think Mark III isn't coming?

don't know for sure, but when your company is cut in half, in the middle of such a project, and then this lawsuit, my confidence is quite low, and then the future is even more uncertain ... just my opinion

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'd wondered what happened here, as I was following them all on social media and it all went dark and quiet at one point.

What a sad finish.

 

[canadianreader]

Lux CEO and co-founder Ben Sandofsky is said to have fired de With in December over financial misconduct. de With announced that he had joined Apple's design team in January.

I’m wondering if it’s ethical to employ the co-founder after discussions to acquire the company and its IP. It’s certainly opportunistic. It seems the ceo got rug pulled by both.

 

[IceCool]

Wish I could read the source article, but no way am I paying money to that site.

Me for every Bloomberg/Gurman article lol

Besides, no point in paying when MR covers it anyway 😂

 

[capamac]

Couldn't Apple just assign a dev team to create a near-copy over the weekend?

 

[JoeSilver]

don't know for sure, but when your company is cut in half, in the middle of such a project, and then this lawsuit, my confidence is quite low, and then the future is even more uncertain ... just my opinion

Curiously, the public preview of Mark III was launched on the same day as the announcement of the cofounder move to Apple.

 

[turbineseaplane]

I'm disappointed to see so many folks advocating for Apple to just "copy everything" from a 3rd party App.

Sherlocking mostly sucks the life out of developer enthusiasm and is toxic for your platform, especially when you've leaned in so heavily on "get 3rd party Apps for everything".

 

[frenchcamp49er]

Sounds like they should have sold the company

 

[frenchcamp49er]

I'm disappointed to see so many folks advocating for Apple to just "copy everything" from a 3rd party App.

Sherlocking mostly sucks the life out of developer enthusiasm and is toxic for your platform, especially when you've leaned in so heavily on "get 3rd party Apps for everything".

This has been having since the dawn of time

 

[BeatsByTim]

I'm disappointed to see so many folks advocating for Apple to just "copy everything" from a 3rd party App.

Sherlocking mostly sucks the life out of developer enthusiasm and is toxic for your platform, especially when you've leaned in so heavily on "get 3rd party Apps for everything".

the app “copied” their features from every standalone mirrorless camera

 

[jz0309]

I'm disappointed to see so many folks advocating for Apple to just "copy everything" from a 3rd party App.

Sherlocking mostly sucks the life out of developer enthusiasm and is toxic for your platform, especially when you've leaned in so heavily on "get 3rd party Apps for everything".

People are just expressing their opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
Same happens in every other thread here on MR ...

 

[turbineseaplane]

the app “copied” their features from every standalone mirrorless camera

That has no relevance to the point I was making.

 

[jz0309]

That has no relevance to the point I was making.

Your "point" appears to be that you don't like other people's opinions...

 

[turbineseaplane]

People are just expressing their opinion, nothing more, nothing less.
Same happens in every other thread here on MR ...

I understand that and I was saying that I'm disappointed in what I'm seeing articulated.

It absolutely nukes developer morale for your platform if you outright ripoff third party Apps, as many seem to be advocating for Apple to do.

 

[Reason077]

de With's legal representatives … deny that he "used, transferred, or disclosed any Lux intellectual property" as part of his new job at Apple.

Mmm hmmmmmm. Ok. Sure. 🤔