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As a former Apple Technical Support Rep of about 5 years ago iPhoto has always had a reliability issue. Back then once you approached 2GB it would begin going s

As a former Apple Technical Support Rep of about 5 years ago iPhoto has always had a reliability issue. Back then once you approached 2GB it would begin going slow and corruption had a higher chance. It's slowly gotten better over the years but reading all of the internal support articles at Apple it was alarming just how many issues it had at the time. Perhaps it's far better today, I'm not really sure but it completely turned me off to using it at all.

eridius 12y ago
You realize you're commenting on a post about Apple's brand new app Photos, which is not the same thing as iPhoto, right? It's a replacement, sure, but it's a new codebase rather than an update to iPhoto.
- BinaryIdiot 12y ago
  > You realize you're commenting on a post about Apple's brand new app Photos, which is not the same thing as iPhoto, right? I was commenting on a comment which talked about Apple's file system in a critical manner discussing how it can become corrupted. I shared a story regarding how iPhoto had many issues like this years ago which makes me wary of using any Apple photo application. Seemed on topic with the thread to me. > it's a new codebase rather than an update to iPhoto. Source? I had not heard this. I heard multiple things mostly which pointed to basing the new application off of Aperture's code base.
  - eridius 12y ago
    The point of your comment seems to be "iPhoto is untrustworthy, I don't think I'm willing to give it another shot". Photos.app isn't iPhoto. I think I was perfectly warranted in pointing that out. > I heard multiple things mostly which pointed to basing the new application off of Aperture's code base. I actually hadn't heard that, but I guess what I meant was Photos.app isn't based on the iPhoto codebase. Whether it's 100% fresh code, or whether it's based on the Aperture codebase, I don't know.
    - BinaryIdiot 12y ago
      > The point of your comment seems to be "iPhoto is untrustworthy, I don't think I'm willing to give it another shot". Photos.app isn't iPhoto. I think I was perfectly warranted in pointing that out. So you decided to completely ignore my explanation as to what I was commenting on and simply reiterated what you already said? Why troll HN? I don't get it.

eridius 12y ago

You realize you're commenting on a post about Apple's brand new app Photos, which is not the same thing as iPhoto, right? It's a replacement, sure, but it's a new codebase rather than an update to iPhoto.

BinaryIdiot 12y ago
> You realize you're commenting on a post about Apple's brand new app Photos, which is not the same thing as iPhoto, right? I was commenting on a comment which talked about Apple's file system in a critical manner discussing how it can become corrupted. I shared a story regarding how iPhoto had many issues like this years ago which makes me wary of using any Apple photo application. Seemed on topic with the thread to me. > it's a new codebase rather than an update to iPhoto. Source? I had not heard this. I heard multiple things mostly which pointed to basing the new application off of Aperture's code base.
- eridius 12y ago
  The point of your comment seems to be "iPhoto is untrustworthy, I don't think I'm willing to give it another shot". Photos.app isn't iPhoto. I think I was perfectly warranted in pointing that out. > I heard multiple things mostly which pointed to basing the new application off of Aperture's code base. I actually hadn't heard that, but I guess what I meant was Photos.app isn't based on the iPhoto codebase. Whether it's 100% fresh code, or whether it's based on the Aperture codebase, I don't know.
  - BinaryIdiot 12y ago
    > The point of your comment seems to be "iPhoto is untrustworthy, I don't think I'm willing to give it another shot". Photos.app isn't iPhoto. I think I was perfectly warranted in pointing that out. So you decided to completely ignore my explanation as to what I was commenting on and simply reiterated what you already said? Why troll HN? I don't get it.