Latest update does not impress
I feel recently, Apple software products have decreased significantly in terms of refinement and quality and I seriously hope, this trend does not continue, like in its latest victim, Aperture, or we may be forced to look elsewhere again.
- It may be a style decision only, but moving deliberately from colored icons to black and white (as in Lion) is a step back in my opinion. Color helps tell icons apart. Color may not be required for text, but there is a good reason, why we switched from monochrome displays in the 80s to full color screens today.
- Upon losing connection to the internet, with Facebook or Flickr having shared albums in Aperture, an error message pops up that tell you, there was a problem with the sync. That's ok, but the message pops up about 50 times and you have to click every single one away. It's Windows 95 all over again. We used to laugh at multiple identical error messages, now we get them in a professional application from Apple? ***?
- Sharing to Flickr and Facebook has gotten that much more complicated as opposed to 3.2.x, as the individual albums are no longer displayed or displayable in the left library column. So in order to add pics to an existing shared album, I have to go over the share button and select my album from a pull down menu. Again, this is not drag & drop, this is Windows 95 and I don't like it one bit and I'm sure, many others don't either.
I found these issues after spending maybe 30 minutes with the new 3.3 version, now tell me QA did a good job?
Please, we want the old Apple software quality back, don't let success get in your way!
Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.4)