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Apple Photos
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[Bret Williams] “Agreed. I never saw anything that hinted at it being an aperture replacement. It’s just an upgraded iPhoto designed to sell cloud drive space.”
“With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture. When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X,” reads a statement Apple released to Macworld.”
Emphasis mine. Photos is a replacement for both iPhoto and Aperture.
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Still doesn’t say it’s a replacement to aperture. I saw the original demo, and it looked like a stripped down iPhoto. So seeing what you’ve quoted just seems like Apple’s way of saying “beginning with the release of Photos, Aperture will be EOL’d and you can move your Aperture libraries to Photos.” It doesn’t say “where all the functionality of Aperture will be retained.”
So Ok, it IS a replacement for Aperture. A crappy one.
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[TImothy Auld] “And in my estimation that is still about twenty years away.
“That’s what the guy told me in Sony school about non-linear editing in 1995. So I guess non-linear is nearly here!
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In recent history the only two apps that have nearly abandoned the Mac segment of the NLE world were Adobe Premiere (abandoned it for 3 years or more) and Avid (who quit developing certain products for Mac).
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[Bret Williams] “So Ok, it IS a replacement for Aperture. A crappy one.”
Ah, I misunderstood what you meant previously. Yeah, from a product standpoint Photos is a replacement for iPhoto and Aperture, but from a feature standpoint Photos, at least out of the gate, doesn’t look like it will be a good substitute for Aperture.
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I meant that I personally never saw anything written or demoed that made ME think it was a replacement for Aperture. Aparently, as you pointed out, you can convert your aperture library to Photos. But I think you could have a synced iPhoto/Aperture library in the past anyway.
I use iPhoto for cataloging every digital photo I’ve ever taken. I don’t think 5gigs in the cloud is going to cut it. I’m not buying any cloud space either. So we’ll see how this goes down. My current iPhoto library is 449gigs spanning 1998-Present. Yeah, Apple, let me just buy half a terabyte please.
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Yes, and I first saw HD at NAB IN Dallas in 1986. And I was told then that it would be in 80% of households in 1990.
Tim
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By the way – it’s still not in 80% of households.
Tim
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More than two years? 10.1 was released in December 2013, JUST OVER a year ago.
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[Bret Williams] “Agreed. I never saw anything that hinted at it being an aperture replacement. It’s just an upgraded iPhoto designed to sell cloud drive space.”
Looks like you’re pretty much on target:
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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