![]() The new Apple doesn’t seem care about edge cases. ![]() But no, Apple don’t like thick devices, and more importantly only care about the majority. I’d love a 4" iPhone 6S (even if it had to be slightly thicker). Likewise, I believe the 17" would even actually have still been profitable given Apple’s scale, but not profitable enough to make it worth while. Of course, Apple have so much cash that they could keep making it, but are choosing not to. I’d guess it’s for the same reason they killed my beloved 17" MacBook Pro: not because no-one was buying it, but because not enough people were buying it. Why can’t I buy those apps still? (or why can’t they sell it to someone else to continue supporting?) IWork '09 was the best productivity suite I’ve ever used, and still is!! Sure, the new iWork is nice as a basic word processor for people who just want to type a letter, but the old one was SO good. It annoys me that, again, they are focused on the lowest common denominator (iOS Pages support, for example drove the dumbing down of iWork). I LOVE the old Pages/Keynote and still use them every day. iMovie is still not really up to iMovie HD 6, and they’ve nuked and rebooted twice. My worry is that the features will never return - iWork is still missing many features from 2013 when they decided to nuke and start again. Unfortunately at the moment, it seems only Adobe are interested in the market! So I’ll likely end up with them. I want a UX that is intuitive and efficient, like Apple’s used to be! For now, I’m keeping legacy photos in Aperture/iPhoto, and trying to live with Photos, but on my long term task list is to find a replacement. I want a solid library of photos that is fast and locally stored (while backed up furiously!). ![]() So as nice as those ‘features’ are - they aren’t for me. That’s all well and good, but I have 200+gigs of photos, and I don’t want them stored on cloud servers thank you very much. It seems these days, everyone (Apple, MS, Google) only want to make photo apps that talk to the cloud. ![]() On the Mac, I’ve replaced Calendar (Bus圜al), Reminders (Things) and basically any new music / playlists since 2012 is in Spotify, with a legacy iTunes collection. I’ve now replaced Calendar (Fantastical), Notes (Evernote), Music (Spotify), News (Reeder), Reminders (Things) and Maps (Google Maps). I think we’re looking at a beautiful future of Apple Hardware & OS, but the future of Apps is 3rd party I reckon. I remember the good old days where there wasn’t just a single type of user from Apple’s perspective. I’m also a huge fan of events (I’ve used them since the early 2000s), it is thus amongst one of the main reasons I am sticking with iPhoto at least for the moment. My users have the same problem - they love events, and Photos does not satisfactorily display or organise events. I’m quite petrified of Apple forcing us off it in further versions of OSX. Like we used to have iMove (Consumer), Final Cut Express (Prosumer) and Final Cut Pro (Pro). I mean essentially making iPhoto into a ‘Prosumer’ application by adding more features continually updating it. And part of that problem I think is that they thought they could kill Camera Roll but there was a massive backlash, so they returned it, but now they can’t let go of their new way of looking at Photos (Photos tab vs Albums tab) on either iPhone or Mac, so they have both and it’s confusing (and don’t get me started on the fact that photos sort in weird orders every now and then for no reason!). I think the biggest issue I have with Photos is that the user experience is so bad at the moment. Or maybe they just want to get us all onto an iCloud Photo Library for now and then they’ll worry about adding features later (that’s my personal guess is). Who knows, maybe they are building Photos Pro and they just haven’t finished it yet. It smacks of the new iTunes’ similar lack of good UX. I’m happy to acknowledge Apple know what is best from a clean slate, but many of my users are invested in iPhoto and have years of Events & Albums etc, and completely changing that paradigm is confusing! Not to mention, the UX in Photos is terribly confusing. That way, people like us who know what individual users actually want. I don’t think it would be a problem to just keep selling iPhoto and Aperture for now, while not bundling it. Not sure what you mean about rebranding iPhoto as Photos Pro… they are different enough I think that’d be confusing.
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