Re:Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of...
by Gaelan on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @04:09PM
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> 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.
Re:Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of...
by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:00AM
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Wasn’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.
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.