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Re:Photos Preview by foomoo on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:04PM (#9005153)
I like the looks, too! Looks to me as if iPhoto will eventually be replaced by Photos (though I believe I remember the announcement was that it would not?) as it wraps most of its functionality and has a nicer look. Maybe makes sense to have Photos (lifestyle) and Aperture (professional) as two apps with a clear focus for each one.

I'm just missing some statement on how the performance is, especially since we all have like several hundred GBs or even TBs worth of pictures nowadays. It's only a preview with screenshots though...

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Re:Photos Preview by eridius on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:45PM (#9005458)
According to The Verge[1]:

> iPhoto was often criticized for choking on large image libraries, but Apple says it built Photos to handle large and growing photo libraries, since people are taking so many more photos than they used to before. From our experience, it seems that Apple's efforts have paid off: the new Photos app effortlessly scrolls through thousands of photos, [...]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7979925/apple-photos-app-ne...

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Re:Photos Preview by booticon on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:41PM (#9005424)
Photos will be replacing iPhoto and Aperture: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/27/aperture-development-sto...

I believe Adobe has already released a plugin to import your Aperture library into Lightroom.

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Re:Photos Preview by corv on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:10PM (#9005197)
Unfortunately Aperture is also being discontinued...
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Re:Photos Preview by acdha on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:58PM (#9005568)
To be fair, after years of being neglected it's probably better that they admit nobody is working on Aperture.
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