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Apple Programmer's Blog Reveals New Aperture Team is Forming

blakeseely.com — As it turns out, Apple is currently hiring programmers for Aperture. This means a better/faster Aperture 2.0 (hopefully).

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  • Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7As much as Adobe is making some tasks easier, us professional photographers look to apple in terms of the future, there's a demand that needs to be reached, but there's a trust too that people only have for apple!
  • zmax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I hope Apple doesn't fire him for disclosing this. Given their lawsuits over bloggers, he might not have a job for long.
    • tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As far as I know, they can't fire you for saying what product you work on unless it is unreleased. I know a few people that have told me that they worked on the FCP team, but of course, they won't tell me what's new in 6.0 :)
    • wrinkles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Hey Blake, what's up?"
      "Got a job!"
      "Great, where at?"
      "Can't tell you, it's top secret."

      Not.
    • tonicboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ tobsterius - California (like most states, actually) is an at-will employment state. That means that both the employer and employee can terminate employment at any time for any reason. So for those of you who think you have some job security because you think you can't be fired without good cause, you're probably mistaken.
    • pcloadletter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31. This guy most certainly can tell people he is working on Aperture now that it's no longer a secret produtc.
      2. He cannot blog about his job... after he actually starts.
      3. Apple is NOT hiring a new Aperture team. They have an existing team that is not going anywhere. There were some changes LAST YEAR but all this stuff about firing the team is crap.
      4. Aperture is really great (I am a photographer) and while it still has many typical version 1 issues (buggy, lagging, etc), it's coming along really well. The 1.1 reviews have been very positive, and the product is doing extremely well for being very, very new.
  • runninmac, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Well this has to be real, I mean after all everyone posts the truth in their blog.
  • christianw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3hes not disclosing anything. nowhere in his post does he say that apple is hiring a new team. he just said that he was just hired to join the team. saying "i just got a job" isnt disclosing anything really not like hes giving details.

    reported as innacurate cause dude that title and discription is hype bs and way off base.
  • jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3hiring more programmers doesn't mean better / faster anything.
    "too many cooks spoil the broth"
    • ScnnrDrkly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Retard. Apple just let the existing Aperture development team go, Can't cook anything with no cooks now, can they? Anyway, a more appropriate correlation wouldn't be the "cooks" metaphor but rather Brooks' law (the mythical man-month).
  • fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Aperture has gotten bad reviews here and there - but as a photographer who shoots RAW - Aperture is by far the BEST solution for quick organization and adjustments to RAW files - it's a God-Send to pro-photographers. Even in it's beta-like state, it's still a hell of a lot better than Lightroom... and that's about all the competition there is...
    • jeremedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I agree. I have over 12,000 raw images in Aperture. Aperture is the real "home" for these files. The elimination of separate environments for organization and editing is, as you say, a God-Send.

      I don't agree with the beta-like state comment, however. I haven't had any problems with Aperture since 1.1.
    • JamesGolick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I use Aperture every day, and I have to say that while I agree that aperture is the BEST solution, it is SLOW AS ANYTHING. Don't get me wrong, some operations are fine, but sometimes (pretty often), things slow down to a crawl, out of nowhere.

      ...and that's on my Dual-2.3 G5, with 6Gb of ram. And I'm not the only guy to have this problem... Reviews I've read, have had similar performance on Quad-2.5 G5s, with 16Gb of ram, and 512Mb VRam. For those of you non-mac users, that's the top of the line Powermac, fully upgraded.

      I really hope that the new team will mean big improvements.
  • Xanthux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3
    I for one am very excited about the continued progress of Aperture. I completely agree with fudgebrown's assessments, the only other contender would be Lightroom but still only in beta.
  • macphan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No duh it's gonna be better, have you seen the way apple does things?
  • fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Has anyone here uploaded their iPhoto library into Aperture? I'm curious how it does this - does it add only the master files that iPhoto saves (probably).
    • blakeseely, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Aperture imports an iPhoto photos by importing *both* the original master and the latest edited version. It puts these two in a stack and tags them with an "iPhoto Original" and "iPhoto Edited" keyword - that way the two versions are always together (unless you split them), but you can always find all your originals or edited versions.
      It imports your entire library by creating a new project for each Roll (every import in iPhoto), and then creating folders and albums to match the structure you had in iPhoto. These new albums simply reference the versions stored in the roll projects.
      Pretty smart scheme....
  • vodkabuddy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0who gives a *****? just because it's Apple it makes the digg frontpage?

    digg retards are true sheep. if the story has to do with iPod, Apple or Google they masturbate all over the story.

    get a ***** life, retards. and go look for some actual news.
  • mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Apple Programmer's Blog Gets Him Fired
    • notorious., on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Welcome to Apple. You're fired."

      heh heh
  • notorious., on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't see where it says "a new team is forming". I see where it says that he is joining the existitng team, but nothing about a "new" team.

    The title is misleading.
  • abrooks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mirror - http://loop.worldofapple.com/archives/2006/04/29/aperture-team-change-confirmed/
  • fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thanks for that mirror abrooks - :-P
  • fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2also read the comments within the blog, if you're still a doubting Thomas :-P
  • christianw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hes not disclosing anything. nowhere in his post does he say that apple is hiring a new team. he just said that he was just hired to join the team. saying "i just got a job" isnt disclosing anything really not like hes giving details.

    reported as innacurate cause dude that title and discription is hype bs and way off base.

    reposted because once wasnt enough aparently
    • mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah. Steve Jobs - not so cool with people talking about what they're working on, regardless of any details that allegedly might be disclosed.
  • Strolls, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What an interesting guy - in the article is a link which points to his blog entry about leaving his previous job. It sounds like this Blake dude is really motivated by doing interesting stuff in his job, and he's basically taken 6 months out to learn how to be a Mac prgrammer. The bit I really like is that he ends his blog of 6 months ago saying "I'd really love to end up as a programmer at Apple" - that really makes me feel warm & fuzzy for him.

    http://blakeseely.com/blog/archives/2005/11/10/goodbye-peoplesoft-hello/
  • ryanbutterworth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0John Gruber at DaringFireball has a great article on this...

    http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/aperture_dirt
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