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Is Apple turning its back on photographers?
It’s an old article, so you may have already seen it. I just stumbled across it the other day.
It’s interesting to see the person come to the conclusion that they basically don’t trust Apple to keep Aperture around.
“As much as I love Apple, I simply don’t trust them not to turn their back on me, the professional photographer, and turn instead to the other 200 people who live in my block of flats. After all, why should they bother selling me one copy, when they can sell them two hundred?”
https://www.pixiq.com/article/aperture-or-lightroom
Oh, and just to make this post gets enough FCP X coverage to justify it being in this forum …
I really don’t care for the Magnetic Timeline. Except for when it’s really useful. What are your thoughts?
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Good article. I think the point the guy is making is that Apple may continue to further consolidate their products. So, perhaps Aperture will merge with Iphoto. Accordingly, Logic may merge with Garageband and FCPX would merge with iMovie. All for the sake of their success with smart devices and also their Appstore business model.
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Enjoyed the end line !
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It benefits Apple to have two tiers of products. iPhoto/Aperture. iMovie/FCP. GarageBand/Logic, especially when the first tier are primarily free apps. The higher end apps are revenue streams. FCP has been number two on top grossing apps for a long time, second only to Lion, and Logic is now third.
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Yes it is an old article, which was addressed here;
https://aperture.maccreate.com/2011/10/31/pixiq-is-apple-turning-its-back-on-photographers/ -
[Christian Schumacher] ” I think the point the guy is making is that Apple may continue to further consolidate their products. “
Consolidate? Now there’s an understatement. 🙂
Wouldn’t it have been great if Apple had only decided to consolidate FCS instead of killing it?
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WIth photos, I think Adobe always had a much more popular and better offering (lightroom). If they dumbed down Aperture I don’t think it will cause nearly the stink that FCPX did.
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[Tom Wolsky] “It benefits Apple to have two tiers of products. iPhoto/Aperture. iMovie/FCP. GarageBand/Logic”
Except that they already killed the FCP tier. FCX isn’t on the same level. But in that case, they had iMovie/FCE/FCP. So they now just have iMovie/FCX (which is the new FCE). They killed their pro video editing app.
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[Tom Wolsky] “It benefits Apple to have two tiers of products. iPhoto/Aperture. iMovie/FCP. GarageBand/Logic, especially when the first tier are primarily free apps.”
I can see your line of reasoning, but if their hardware is already successful, why give software away for free?
And maybe some basic functionality could be introduced to the “Mic App” and “Camera App” that would replace the need for those free “first tiers”? Addicionally, wouldn’t be smart to merge not only the products, but also their development and support? I think this is the way they’re going. IMHO. -
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Consolidate? Now there’s an understatement. :)”I meant “consolidate” as “to join together as one whole”
[David Roth Weiss] ”
Wouldn’t it have been great if Apple had only decided to consolidate FCS instead of killing it?”If you meant it as “to make firm or secure” than yes, it would’ve been great.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consolidate
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[Daniel Frome] “WIth photos, I think Adobe always had a much more popular and better offering (lightroom).”
Apple created the category. I think Apple and Adobe leapfrogged each other on feature set for the first couple versions — but notably, Aperture shipped first and introduced photographers to the notion of a RAW-editing photo management app.
It certainly seems that Lightroom has all the momentum now, though. Anecdotally, I know a few photographers who switched from Aperture to Lightroom over time, but none who switched from Lightroom to Aperture.
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