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Unifying the integration with iCloud is okay, but that's really unfortunate. Apple kills a "pro" app while the "basic" apps lose features every new release.

If you compare iMovie and iPhoto '09 to the latest ones it's a downgrade from every angle. Even GarageBand lost features, you could use plugins before.

I'm afraid they will "transition" users to Photos in the sense they will let you import your Aperture library, and that's it. The app will have 50% of the editing features, because that's what happens everytime a company promises a new version written from the ground-up.

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Look at what happened with FCP, though. They released a new version, missing lots of features, and then future releases restored functionality.

When you're doing a ground-up rewrite, it makes sense to get the basics working first.

However they radically changed the way the workflow works in ways that some (many?) users cant adapt to. I don't do much any more since I shuttered my production side business, but I can't use the current FCP. It's still (and will always be) missing some do-or-die features for me. The Apple Pro App that I really use though is Logic, and, please Apple--do not "improve" it.

What do-or-die features are missing for you?

For me, batch log and capture from tape. FCPX no longer has any tape support.

I was wondering if they ever brought it back to parity with the original.. guess not.

It is odd, though, in that releasing a gimped product to be improved later seems counter to Apple's whole design ethos. (The "back of a dresser" parable of Steve's comes to mind).

> When you're doing a ground-up rewrite, it makes sense to get the basics working first.

And you do that in alpha phases. You don't replace working software with inferior, incomplete software.

At least, that's what is supposed to happen. I have no idea why people think it's reasonable to downgrade users to a new version that has fewer features and expect the users to use the new, inferior version while waiting for the equivalent features to be restored. I would say that it's greed, the desire to sell new software at lower development costs for more profit, but since the FOSS community has been one of the worst offenders in this regard (KDE 4, GNOME 3), I guess it's not that simple. Maybe some other factors are laziness, irresponsibility, and lack of pride in craftsmanship.

> Even GarageBand lost features, you could use plugins before.

Just to clarify, this is not the case: you can still use Audio Units as always.

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