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It will probably be difficult to get a big market share from iPhoto, even though Picasa has a couple of features that iPhoto lacks: - (free and) easy sync with
by Timothee 18y ago
It will probably be difficult to get a big market share from iPhoto, even though Picasa has a couple of features that iPhoto lacks:
- (free and) easy sync with online albums (there's a plugin to push photos from iPhoto to PicasaWeb but probably not as complete as Picasa from what the video demo shows. I do hope Google keeps providing this plugin though)
- face recognition. I tried it on PicasaWeb and it was pretty impressive.
Where it could make a difference is on speed. The rest looks very similar.
I also wonder if it gives the same system-wide access to photos through the Media library that many applications use.
- there 18y agoiphoto has a few plugins that easily sync with online albums (flickr, for one).
- there 18y agoand now according to the macworld 09 keynote, iphoto 09 will have facial recognition and native flickr support.
- Timothee 18y agoExactly. So, unless one really dislikes iPhoto, it will be hard to push Picasa to Mac users. Some will use it for sure but there's a big barrier to entry (which is not without reminding of the case of Internet Explorer on Windows...)
- halo 18y agoOn the other hand, Picasa is free.
- Timothee 18y agoThe thing is that iPhoto comes with every Mac. So, in a way, it's free too.