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Apple Dumps Most of Aperture Dev. Team

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the smart-guys-looking-for-work dept.

SuperMog2002 writes "An article over at Think Secret is reporting that Apple has fired much of the Aperture development team. The Shake and Motion team was assigned to work on Aperture's image processing pipeline for version 1.1. Apple has also dropped the price of Aperture from $499 to $299, and is offering those who purchased the program at $499 a $200 Apple store coupon." From the article: "Perhaps the greatest hope for Aperture's future is that the application's problems are said to be so extensive that any version 2.0 would require major portions of code to be entirely rewritten. With that in mind, the bell may not yet be tolling for Aperture; an entirely new engineering team could salvage the software and bring it up to Apple's usual standards."

3 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. MSFT? by neonprimetime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Aperture, Apple's most heavily criticized and bug-ridden software release in recent years.

    Honest ... If I programmed like that at my job (a bank) ... I'd be out the door quicker than they were!

  2. Re:Aperture Is still the Best work Flow by dfghjk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "At anyrate if you buy a new $5k~20k camera every 2~3 years you can pony up for a Quad G5 to get the job done." ...or you could be smart about it. Aperture does have mature competition.

    I guess you ordered the Venti KoolAid.

  3. Re:I was on the team... by mj_1903 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well as I blew my cover earlier...

    This was an experiment to see whether a crafted blog post containing errors could get +5 and between when I went to bed and when I awoke it appears the /. mods were working overtime to make my dribble stand out.

    I don't work for Apple.

    I have never used Aperture so I don't know how good/bad it is.

    Why would Shake and Motion have anything to do with another project?

    Why would core image be used on such a high end application?

    This is why I should stop reading /. Anything can be modded up...