Photos vs. iPhoto

1. It's hard to disagree with that assessment. It seems optimised for phones, which is what most people shoot with these days.

2. You can still use iPhoto. But it is no longer developed and there is no guarantee that it will run on whatever OS comes after 10.10.

3. Aperture is no longer sold by Apple. Same as iPhoto.

Look at apps by other makers: Lightroom etc.

Aperture has gone completely. It's too early for me to say whether I like Photos or not though. Good and bad bits at the moment as far as I can see.

If you were a serious user of Aperture there's nothing in Photos for you.

This whole Photos thing is a nightmare. After reading the first reviews, I took the plunge yesterday and started Photos. Result:

1. I was unable to complete the purchase of extra iCloud storage which would fit my 100GB library. So I tried to continue without iCloud library.

2. At this point, Photos announced my iPhoto library was locked or I didn't have permission, I said to try and repair them but it hung for hours without doing a thing. Stuck on preparing library 2%. At some point, I force quit Photos and tried to return to iPhoto. This

3. opened normally, but all my sharing options (which worked perfectly yesterday), that is, sharing to Facebook, e-mail, etc. are now greyed out, even though all the accounts are in place in the Preferences. I suspect this to be sure to my opening Photos once.

AAARGH! Why can't Apple handle photos????

I don't like it either. Looks like Apple follows the money trail, iPhone/iPad users.

They totally ignore now graphic designers, photographers..etc. who use a real computer and not the mini-toys.

In 2-3 yrs Apple will make a new application just for toys, I guess.

There is a nice application called Lyn. You can try it. It works very similarly to iPhoto, and the developer is as good as developer of GraphicConverter, both respond to any question or idea. On MacUpdate people report very good reviews. So, if more iPhoto users will move to Lyn, the better. PhotoShop Elements Organizer is very good too. But I never tried.

I don't like it either. Looks like Apple follows the money trail, iPhone/iPad users.

Hmmm, a large corporation follows profit motive shock.

They totally ignore now graphic designers, photographers..etc. who use a real computer and not the mini-toys.

That's just not true. Apple is a hardware company and just is out of the pro market in software. They don't need to be there are there's a very healthy 3rd party market in these fields now - unlike a few years ago.

But, you know, insulting other users by calling the apps and devices they use as "toys" doesn't really win people over to your cause. I use this real computer every day - and I can do some of my work on iOS devices if I need to, and - imagine this - I'm not a graphic designer or photographer. There are other uses for computers too...

I didn't mean to insult the users of smartphones, but if you feel I did, then accept my apologies.

And I do agree with the software issue, there are thousands of excellent software in App Store, and I spend there quite a bit of time, searching for gems.

And as I keep using the new Photos, I discover that it is indeed an very good upgrade. Too bad only Apple killed the original name "iPhoto".