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:Standards?

[Goaway]

You are wrong about QuickTime on Windows: It is a very faithful port of QuickTime on Mac, which is also a total piece of shit.

Really that bad?

[localman]

My wife uses Aperture all the time for her professional photography business, and though she said it was a little buggy, it hasn't caused her any serious problems. Overall she really loves it. She feels it's about as stable as most any 1.0 app. If they can get an even better team working on it, that's cool, but is it really considered such a failure?

Cheers.

Re:Aperture 1.1

[fermion]

The issue here is that because Apple has never, ever, made a long term commitment to a piece of application software, few people belive they will, and even fewer, who hope to build a long term enterprise, should be willing to use such software.

Typically, the consumer and small bussiness stuff is good. However, I don't do much in Pages becuase I do not now when apple will drop support, as it did for MacWrite. Filemaker is good, but it is now an independent piece of software, and who know when it will go bust. I do not encode anything in iTunes as ACC, becuase who knows what will happen with iTunes, although that has a better chance as it is linking with the currently popular iPod.

I think that this is another stake in the Apple coffin as an trusted application provider. Even with MS, whose cost and versioning is outrageous, at least has the history showing you will have an application for the next release. I like Apple computers, but I generally look somewhere else, mor frequently OSS, for application software.