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0 pointsEric_WVGG1y ago0 comments

On acquisitions like DarkSky (RIP), sure. This looks a lot more like a Logic-style acquisition.

Pixelmator would slot nicely into the same consumer set of productivity apps that ship with all Macs (Pages, Numbers, Keynote). Photomator will get them back into the market they abandoned when Aperture was shuttered.

Speaking of Aperture… am I the only person who remembers that Apple owns Claris? Why didn't Apple just hand off Aperture to Claris and say "just keep this thing working on new MacOS releases"?

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iwontberude1y ago

And the management team that brought us ClarisWorks is still leading Apps to this day. Apple doesn't wipe out management during acquisitions, it permanently entrenches them in their structure.

grahamj1y ago

ugh don't get me started about Aperture. I'm still salty about that.

sersi1y ago

I still haven't found an app that's as good as Aperture used to be with my workflow in term of UX/convenience etc...

Never understood the logic of getting rid of it. I know a few people who actually switched to mac because of Aperture

kergonath1y ago

> I still haven't found an app that's as good as Aperture used to be with my workflow in term of UX/convenience etc...

Me neither… I wanted to like Lightroom, which was the solution most of the community seemed to migrate to, but between the infuriating inconsistent UI and the predatory subscription model I did not use it for long. And now I have a Rube Goldberg thing that is janky and feels brittle.

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SllX1y ago

Claris isn’t really a dumping ground anymore. That’s how it started, but they’ve evolved their own business since then.

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