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Old October 10th 18, 05:04 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
John McWilliams
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Default One photog's not so great experience with Apple

On 10/5/18 PDT 7:32 PM, Savageduck wrote:

Aperture, as promising as it was, was a commercial failure. Part of the blame
goes to a pretentious initial price of $499 which with ver. 2.0 was reduced
to a still too high $199. Those prices made anything from Adobe look like a
bargain. While there were many who loved it there were not enough of those to
support advanced development. So Apple moved development, and support to
other areas, and Aperture was left to whither on the vine where it could not
compete with Lightroom. Those who loved it resented Apple for this allegedly
traitorous abandonment, and still longingly look back to the days Aperture
provided them with all they ever imagined they needed for their digital
photography.

Some of us Apple folks never used Aperture, or Apple photography stuff. I was
a Lightroom user from the days of the betas, and when Aperture was stupidly
overpriced.

Agreed.