If my understanding from the communications over the Summer when iOS 18 was in beta testing, the changes were made so that folks would better see the New Siri style photo albums and AI changes. It was all to push AI.
Yes, please revive Aperture 🙂. I moved to Lightroom, and tried many other applications. This is including RAW Power that some people say filled the void left by Aperture. I now have two libraries, one mostly unmaintained in Apple Photos and one fully maintained in Lightroom.
What point is that? The point that people throw out terms like, we, us, the majority; speaking for communities of people that doesn’t agree with the point? It’s a tell on these forums.
No, Apple Intelligence™ is the worst thing, at least in most forums. (Seriously, replace "photos" here with "Apple Intelligence" and it reads just like those complaint posts!)
My mom recently switched to iPhone and was surprised at the lack of features in the photos app, like a need for a third-party app to create collages. I explained how it's actually better for us to spend more money in the AppStore so Tim doesn't need to make the software teams work.
The point that people get up in arms about criticisms of an entity.
You aren’t wrong. Apple has been making questionable at best, and boneheaded at worst, software decisions for a long time now. Their services especially (iCloud, etc.). You don’t realize how bad it is until you use a competitor’s product and then you go, “Wait, this makes so much more sense this way. Why isn’t Apple doing it this way?”
Well I’m happy I’m living in the EU which is forcing Apple to accept similar apps instead of forcing their own. Now we can choose which browser we want and soon all the other apps too.
