Aperture Fading into irrelevance Locked

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Mark Smith
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Re: Aperture Fading into irrelevance
In reply to ljfinger, 4 months ago

ljfinger wrote:

Rockaw wrote:

The company that virtually invented digital photography seems oddly quiet about this.

Who? Kodak? Surely you don't mean Apple!

You might like to note Apple had a shipping consumer digital camera before Kodak, so they (Kodak) may have invented it and helped Apple make the first consumer digital camera, but it was Apple that put actual products in the stores before Kodak.

This review from 1994:

http://www.epi-centre.com/reports/9403cdi.html

It's been almost a full three years since Aperture 3.0 was released, and it's only crept up to version 3.3.

Please, no Apple bashing here, but I'd love to know why a company that just raked in $50 billion in a single quarter doesn't toss a few more engineers at making their Pro photo software a must have. It used to be.

Because only a few percent of digital photographers use Apple computers,

According to John Nack 40% of Photoshop sales are for the Mac platform, that's not as insignificant as you think.

Edited 4 months ago by Mark Smith
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