On Oct 5, 2018, Eric Stevens wrote
(in ):

On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:26:19 -0400,
wrote:

In , Oregonian Haruspex
wrote:

I¹ve decided to move all my computers to Free software because I have
little to no control over what Apple, MS, and Adobe do and they all seem to
want to move everything into the cloud, discontinue important programs
(I¹m
looking at Apple and their abandonment of Aperture),

blame users. too few people bought aperture for it to be a viable
product.

Always blame the customer.

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.

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Regards,
Savageduck