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."

Comments

Re:What were the problems?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

There's a good list of bugs at ars's review of aperture

The one people complained about most is the thumbnails not matching the actual image (and there's reports of this happenning in iPhoto too).

Re:What were the problems?

[pixelated77]

Check out Ars Technica's Aperture 1.0 reviwe:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/aperture.ars