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Apple to stop Aperture development

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Posted by jk: Sat Jun 28th, 2014 10:17

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Seems like the end of the line for Aperture users.
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/5684134078/apple-to-cease-development-of-aperture

I guess this will cause even more to use Adobe Lightroom.

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Posted by Bob Bowen: Sun Jun 29th, 2014 05:02

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Read Thom Hogan. A very different slant on the future.

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Posted by Robert: Sun Jun 29th, 2014 15:43

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Is this what you are referring to Bob?

http://www.dslrbodies.com/accessories/software-for-nikon-dslrs/software-news/another-one-bites-the-dust.html

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Posted by Robert: Sun Jun 29th, 2014 16:12

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I haven't loaded Yosemite yet, I should have but for the same reasons I have reduced my presence here, I have drastically reduced the time I am spending with the latest and greatest Apple offerings.

To me iPhoto is worse than useless, OK for occasional snapshots that are unimportant but for serious use it's a dead loss. As far as I can tell Aperture has some severe limitations, although if you can live with them it's sort of OK I understand, not having used it myself since version 1...

My biggest concern isn't so much the principle they are enabling but the practicalities. Most people at least in the UK and those 'in the sticks' have severe limitations for their uploading and downloading both in terms of speed and available bandwidth per month, even if you are 'unlimited' there is still the 'Fair Usage' policy to contend with. Up and downloading vast amounts of Mb/Gb of RAW images to several computers will play havoc with most folks monthly allowance, even 'Unlimited' I suspect. Even if you are prepared to do the uploading in the dead of night, you have little control over when Apple servers decide to level your folders across all devices, once the original data is loaded to their servers. Quite apart from the fact I don't WANT all my images on all my devices.

I have already experimented with a very similar system when the iCloud launched and had it working well, in fact It's still running a test batch of very large TIFF images (100Mb+) through my iCloud account, quite unofficially and by my own invention!!! The folder I use has now been hidden and is very hard to locate but the folder I embedded in that iCloud folder still gives me access to the iCloud via the back door on each of my computers. A sort of personal 'DropBox'...

Interesting can of worms...

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Posted by jk: Sun Jun 29th, 2014 16:16

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Apple has decided to consolidate Aperture and iPhoto into a new app called Photos.
It will be free in Yosemite OSX10.10.x
The news is not good in the short term but does promise to keep Adobe on their toes and also provides a free DAM and image editor. This wont happen until 2015.

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Posted by TomOC: Thu Jul 3rd, 2014 14:52

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I think that Apple has really upset the apple cart with this one.

Initial responses by media were that this is the greatest day ever for Adobe, but I think this might really hurt Adobe badly.

Think about it. Photo will be a compromise between iPhoto and Aperture and will be FREE. Who would ever buy Adobe Elements or even Lightroom except very serious amateurs or Pros (who already own LR and PS).

Checkmate - Adobe no longer has any way to grow !! ???

Yet another calamity to worry about :-)

Happy 4th of July to Americans... Condolences to the rest of the world for having to work tomorrow...

Cheers,

Tom

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Posted by jk: Fri Jul 4th, 2014 05:23

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I agree Tom.
Seems like a winner for Apple to combine Aperture and iPhoto into one app Photos.
This will cause some hair tearing at Adobe.

I am waiting for my first invite from Apple to go get the beta for Yosemite. This will give first indications of the Photos app.

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Posted by Robert: Fri Jul 4th, 2014 09:31

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jk wrote:
I agree Tom.
Seems like a winner for Apple to combine Aperture and iPhoto into one app Photos.
This will cause some hair tearing at Adobe.

I am waiting for my first invite from Apple to go get the beta for Yosemite. This will give first indications of the Photos app.
To the best of my knowledge Yosemite is freely available, you may possibly need to register as a developer, which is free. This is new policy since Mavericks. You don't get to access the seeders forum but I think there is a developers forum.

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Posted by jk: Fri Jul 4th, 2014 14:56

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Robert, i have registered for the Yosemite beta program and beenaccepted but they have said that the first betas are not available yet for download. What developers are seeing in the Developer program which I am also part of are the early alpha offerings.

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Posted by TomOC: Fri Jul 4th, 2014 15:52

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Well, fill us in when you can...I'm not interested in betas of anything...that is one of the main reasons I switched to apple :-)

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Posted by Bob Bowen: Sat Apr 11th, 2015 06:56

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Well just updated Yosemite and low and behold Photos is there. Stable iPhoto gone to replaced by app of little interest or use as it crashes each time I start. Just like the iPad photos app from what I could see. Oh dear Apple :whip:

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Posted by Bob Bowen: Sat Apr 11th, 2015 07:22

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iPhoto still there is applications just dumped out of dock in update. Library buggered when I try to run and reverted to v9. Apple **** up I fear.

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Posted by jk: Sat Apr 11th, 2015 11:37

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Sounds like you are having major troubles Bob. Did you take the minor updates that came before that pre-prepared the Aperture and iPhoto libraries.

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Posted by Bob Bowen: Sat Apr 11th, 2015 13:11

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Yup JK had always done updates as they came. There are instruction on Apple support pages but one does not see those until one starts to dig after installation has happened. Got all the files elsewhere so a pain rather than a disaster.

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