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> AFAIK Aperture never had such a hardcore following and didn't offer such a unique product. The photography market is clearly dominated by Adobe anyway. At th
by DaiPlusPlus 7y ago
> AFAIK Aperture never had such a hardcore following and didn't offer such a unique product. The photography market is clearly dominated by Adobe anyway.
At the time, sure - but none of my friends and contacts who do part-time and professional photography have anything good to say about Adobe Lightroom - the move to Lightroom CC left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, as have the many Cloud-related SNAFUs (apparently a couple of years ago Adobe screwed-up Lightroom's non-destructive edit files and caused a load of people to lose all their Lightroom work - and times when people are unable to authenticate with Adobe so they can't even open the program). Apple would be on to a sure-winner by re-launching Aperture, especially if they give it the visual indexing features present in Apple's existing photo-management products.
- jseliger 7y agoI have switched to Capture One, which is overly expensive and has less-intelligent defaults, but I can also buy a perpetual license.
- Gaelan 7y ago> Apple would be on to a sure-winner by re-launching Aperture In my limited experience, products whose main differentiating factor is being "not the other guy" usually generate a ton of hype, but end up flopping.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoWasn’t that the basis of Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign though? Right - you have to have a better product, but Lightroom isn’t Photoshop (i.e. it isn’t impossible to compete with) and Aperture’s codebase already exists. Apple could divert the profits from a single day’s worth of iPhone sales into an endowment for Aperture to keep a halo-effect on their Mac hardware.