A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing
52 points by hoistbypetard
52 points by hoistbypetard
I still think about Aperture most times I go to edit/share photos. Makes me sad.
I wonder if this is a side-effect of mobile user interfaces becoming more popular, where separate screens/activities are more common because there is less space. Or maybe it is this more related to the separate pages of the web. It certainly seems like an uncommon type of interface.
I never used Aperture, but I believe a lot of its features were available in Adobe Lightroom, which I did use before it went subscription-only. To those who've used both, what was Aperture's USP?
what was Aperture's USP
From the post:
When Aperture was discontinued...I moved over to Adobe Lightroom (now Lightroom Classic) which had separate modules for file management, editing, and books — switching modules was such a slow and clunky processes, I swear nearly threw my computer out the window trying to colour match photos on a book page.
(Maybe you saw this and weren't impressed. Maybe it doesn't strike you as true or a significant enough difference.)
I am ashamed to say I just skimmed the submission and missed this entirely. Thanks for pointing it out!
It's a long article—very easy to miss things. I skim-read the piece myself, but for whatever reason the mention of Lightroom stood out to me. Probably because of the joke about his post-Lightroom trauma that follows the bit I quoted here.