samrod

This article is either incomplete or inaccurate. Photos doesn't cover most of Aperture's abilities. As someone mentioned above, iPhoto was left entirely out of the article. And Aperture was never defeated by Lightroom. It it was just discontinued.

Unfortunately, while Aperture still meets my needs as a photographer and runs flawlessly, our adjustments can't be migrated to Lightroom, leaving us either to flatten out tens of thousands of images or maintain Aperture for legacy work and use LR new work moving forward.

I use Aperture for so much heavy corrections for which I used to rely on Photoshop. But one of its tools still remains unrivaled: Skin Smoother. Lightroom's Clarity slider doesn't even come close. I use Skin Smoother not just for obvious reasons, but also to clean up backdrops and solid surfaces. Aperture's tools weren't primitive once Apple finally added the curves tool. The only other ability I wish it included was the ability to reorder adjustments. Lightroom has since added profile matching, building custom color profiles and countless others, but its compartmentalized workflow is a pain.

Basically, I'm stuck with Aperture. I honestly don't know what to do. I've been running it on my 2006 Mac Pro running El Capitan with a 1GB ATI Radeon 7550 card and it's like butter. However, since Apple stoped issuing RAW camera updates for El Capitan, newer OSs are required to import photos from newer cameras. So I had to install Aperture on a newer MacBook Pro with a modern OS for that. Aperture still runs flawlessly on macOS Mojave.

I agree entirely with Richard Hallas, but one correction:

"a MASSIVELY expensive and comparatively underpowered dead-end system, that it would never significantly upgrade"

The trash can Mac Pro was NEVER updated, significantly or otherwise. Apple just discontinued the "good" config and dropped the "better" and "best" configs to the formerly "good" and "better" prices. Basically, the trash can Mac Pro, the discontinuation of xServe, OS X Server, Aperture, and lobotomizing Final Cut Studio were all part of Apple's move from the pro market. What Apple SHOULD have done:

The current Final Cut X should be Final Cut Express and its underlying engine should've powered the evolving FCP and iMovie.

Photos should've replaced iPhoto while Aperture continued evolving its pro features, if not entirely stripping its consumer features entirely.

I think the various logos suggest an emphasis on the iPad Pro's content creation prowess, with a heavy emphasis on Adobe's announced Photoshop CC for iPad. We may see an Apple Pencil 2. ProMotion may double to 240 Hz.

"A little over 0.01 square miles" is about 200 x 150 yards, basically one city block. That's no mega city. It's a small village.

Just curious, are you two main AI reviewers brothers? Also, for the first time, I finally saw you break from your serious AI presenter speak into regular human speak during the game play. You and (I assume) your bro do great reviews (he's dresses better), but you both can be slightly less serious. Maybe a drink or a joint before the review videos? A technical note: if the Samsung consumed 16% of a much larger capacity battery in the same amount of time than the iPhone X consumed 15% of a smaller one, then that game is drawing serious power. But that's to be expected given that one's running in the DART JVM while the other is natively compiled code and has the Metal GPU framework.

"From iOS 12, you'll be able to use Apple Pay Cash to effectively send money over text message." Apple Pay Cash has been available since iOS 11.2.