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Apple Dumps Most of Aperture Dev. Team
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."
Apple had a "bug-ridden" program, due to the (bad) "architecture", where the development process was a "mess" - so they fired the (whole) team responsible. Just a thought.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
I heard they're bringing Woz back to fix it all up nice and purty...
This guy's the limit!
They were probably being forced to document the code so their successors know where to look for specific screwups.
'Sensible' is a curse word.
Apple is rebating for software already sold, because it isn't good enough for their standards? My god, what would happen if Microsoft had to live by these standards?
Last time I checked, you don't get 'dumped' because your code was amazing.
Well, at Microsoft apparently you don't get dumped because your code sucked. That's the difference.
By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes
When you need to make sure that all of the spyware and viruses have enough space to run safely, every bit of CPU counts.
BTW, hell has started to freeze when a Mac user switches to WinTel for a Graphics/Photo app.
damaged by dogma
I'd fuck his wife, tho.
dear sophia my love: nudes plz thx