Death of Aperture-FCPX Next?

[Mitch Ives]

[Andy Neil] “Oh, I didn’t realize you’ve seen it already. I thought Apple made all their beta testers sign NDAs?”

I read the info… you obviously didn’t… you can remove the stupid smile now…

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

[Andy Neil]

[Mitch Ives] “I read the info… you obviously didn’t”

Oh I read it. The Apple statement which says that Aperture users will be able to migrate their photos to the new program. And the pure speculation on the part of a mac rumors website that it won’t offer professional features. And even they hedged their bets a little by saying it was “unlikely” to offer robust features.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see the point of getting up in arms over the speculation of something I haven’t even seen yet. This is the iMovie Pro crap all over again. You don’t know what this new program will offer or not offer, or what the development strategy will be, so all you’re really doing is resolving to hate it no matter what.

I can see being cautious or nervous about it especially if you use Aperture significantly, but proclaiming it an iToy without any specific knowledge is silly.

Andy

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107277729326633563425/videos

[Brent Cook]

Why else would Apple work with Adobe to transition you over to Lightroom

I don’t see this mentioned anywhere else and I’m sure if it were included in Apple’s statement it would be mentioned everywhere. I’d be surprised if Apple helped users switch to an Adobe product, especially if their intent is to have this Photos app eventually be used by professionals

[Ronny Courtens]

Some more details here:

https://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2014/6/27/aperture-dead-long-live-photos#.U63XfhbZ-iV

– Ronny

[Mitch Ives]

[Brent Cook] “I don’t see this mentioned anywhere else and I’m sure if it were included in Apple’s statement it would be mentioned everywhere. I’d be surprised if Apple helped users switch to an Adobe product, especially if their intent is to have this Photos app eventually be used by professionals”

Its in everything I’m reading, including MacNN. MacNN is a pretty reliable source and not a rumor site…

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

[Mitch Ives]

So MacNN is a rumor site? Since when?

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Craig Seeman] “As it grows, Apple intends the single app to serve the needs of both consumers and professionals.”

Read that statement like a lawyer. “As it grows”… so they’ll gut it like FCPX, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, and then sometime before I start collecting Social Security, they’ll add the missing features back in. Really?

How many times does this have to happen before we start understanding how to speak Apple?

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

[Mitch Ives]

[Brent Cook] “I don’t see this mentioned anywhere else and I’m sure if it were included in Apple’s statement it would be mentioned everywhere. I’d be surprised if Apple helped users switch to an Adobe product, especially if their intent is to have this Photos app eventually be used by professionals”

Jeez, is anybody doing any research? Forget the rumor sites if you want. When it appears on MacNN then it came from Apple. They are real damned careful about what they print…

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

[Robert Gilman]

My research suggest that techcrunch got that meme going. They now say at the bottom of https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/27/apple-to-cease-development-of-aperture-and-transition-users-to-photos-for-os-x/ that:

“Article updated to clarify that there is no official workflow for migrating to Lightroom.”

[Mitch Ives]

[Ronny Courtens] “Some more details here:

https://www.apertureexpert.com/tips/2014/6/27/aperture-dead-long-live-photo...”

Nice article… seems to support my contention about it not being an Aperture replacement for some time.

I read the comments… interesting how everybody said “I don’t want to be forced to store my photos in the cloud”. Apple might want to make Photos work without jamming the cloud down our throats… just a thought.

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