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Aperture 2 Coming, Maybe Next Week?

Speculation regarding Apple's photo applications hit an all-time high this past week when Sr. Product Line Manager for Photo Applications Joe Schorr posted in Apple's Discussion forums the following:

As I'm sure many of you know, it's not Apple's policy to provide a public "ETA" on future releases, so I can't post anything like a timetable for when support for the newest RAW camera formats will become available.

But I can tell you this. We at Apple are ACUTELY aware of the pressing need to get support for the newest round of camera into your hands as soon as possible. This is a top priority. We have members of our own team using these cameras, so you can imagine how interested we are in seeing this support integrated into the Mac OS and our photo applications!

We fully intent to give our customers what they need in this regard.


While we hesitate to draw too many conclusions solely from that post alone, independent reports from some tipsters are indicating that Aperture 2 may indeed be drawing near. Indeed, one uncorroborated tip has gone so far as to indicate that the update may come next week. However, our confidence currently is thin on the matter, and we post the above "intel" to page 2 for interest only.

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53 months ago
I don't use Aperture or even own a camera, but doesn't the camera support come from the OS rather than Aperture itself? I suspect that this is confirmation of 10.5.2 rather than an Aperture update.
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53 months ago

I don't use Aperture or even own a camera, but doesn't the camera support come from the OS rather than Aperture itself? I suspect that this is confirmation of 10.5.2 rather than an Aperture update.


Agreed. PMA 2008 is finishing up today, and it'd be madness for Apple to release an Aperture update right after the biggest photography trade show of the year.
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53 months ago

Agreed. PMA 2008 is finishing up today, and it'd be madness for Apple to release an Aperture update right after the biggest photography trade show of the year.


Yeh - although it's poss that a small aperture update could come out anytime. Also it might make sense to release the MacBook Pros alongside a pro-app update - although again releasing Aperture 2 AFTER a large tradeshow would seem mad.
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53 months ago

Yeh - although it's poss that a small aperture update could come out anytime. Also it might make sense to release the MacBook Pros alongside a pro-app update - although again releasing Aperture 2 AFTER a large tradeshow would seem mad.


Yep the RAW support is an operating system thing, so this means 10.5.2 which should have come by now :(
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53 months ago

...although again releasing Aperture 2 AFTER a large tradeshow would seem mad.


I sincerely hope that you are correct. The fact that Aperture wasn't updated at PMA is one of the reasons I finally ordered the software. It'll be arriving at my doorstep on Tuesday.

Hickman
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53 months ago

I sincerely hope that you are correct. The fact that Aperture wasn't updated at PMA is one of the reasons I finally ordered the software. It'll be arriving at my doorstep on Tuesday.

Hickman


Either that or hope that it gets updated REALLY soon so you can still send it back! Anyway the current software is still very good imho - i'd be interested in how they'd improve it enough for a 2.0 release - although they'll find a way i'm sure!
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53 months ago
Didn't they introduce the MBP 17" at the PMA in 2006/7? Alongside the Aperture 1.5 update?

I might be mistaken here.

If this were the case maybe Apple is trying to get them to be introduced at the same time. But probably one of the two isn't ready!?

Just a thought.
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53 months ago
I'm really looking forward to the Aperture 2 update, can't wait to see what Apple has done to make it a better program, compared to the current version and to Adobe's lightroom
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53 months ago

Either that or hope that it gets updated REALLY soon so you can still send it back! Anyway the current software is still very good imho - i'd be interested in how they'd improve it enough for a 2.0 release - although they'll find a way i'm sure!


My working assumption though is that the 2.0 update will arrive around Photokina in September. My new MP is not arriving until late february, so if there is an update in the near-term, let it be before then. Then I could still return the unopened package.

Hickman
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53 months ago
How much can we expect the upgrade to cost on a $300 software? Will the teacher discount work on such an upgrade?
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