Apple axes the Aperture team
This post was published 3 years 6 months 26 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.In a surprising move, it seems that Apple has axed most of the development team for the Aperature image editing solution.
Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave, Think Secret has learned. The move, which resulted in the departure of several engineers while others were transferred to different projects inside Apple, raises questions about the future of Aperture, Apple’s most heavily criticized and bug-ridden pro software release in recent years.
Have any UNEASY readers had a chance to experiment with the software? Was there any worth to the software as a professional image editing option?
yes and NO
I got to play with a bit when doing that Apple tour. It looked promising, but I did not get to go in depth with it.
Aperture’s draw is that it’s a completely (well, almost) new design of the digital darkroom. Being a photographer myself, I know that my primary gripe with digital photos isn’t manipulating them, but the endless task of sorting and storing so damn many photos. Aperture was designed to help photographers with that task, and it does so brilliantly with the idea of stacks and other innovations. However, the bugs in the program, as well as the unified database, scare the crap out of me. I’ll stay away until I read that it’s really fixed.
Yes and Yes. The software is absolutely amazing. :)
The software is OK, but using on a daily basis would be pointless, it may have a faster startup time and also have a more ‘wizard’ type interface, but most people would rather wait 30 seconds more for photoshop or imageready. And as for sorting photos, iphoto is fairly easy to use, and adobe offer batch editing and also adobe bridge.