Apple is leaving the photo printing business: Apple will shut down its photo book, etc., services as of September 30. If you've been using Apple services, nows the time to seek out new...

JaiGieEse Loc: Foxworth, MS

Apple will shut down its photo book, etc., services as of September 30.

If you've been using Apple services, nows the time to seek out new providers.

I've been using Blurb and MagCloud.

https://www.macworld.com/article/3289551/photography/apple-ends-its-photo-printing-service-after-16-years.html?idg_eid=6ee870c48a7a2d6d29595ecec09b921d&email_SHA1_lc=c3f08478c62c17c0a51247b96463d6260cccd79c&cid=mw_nlt_mw_daily_html_2018-07-12&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Macworld%20Daily%202018-07-12&utm_term=mw_daily_html

JD750 Loc: SoCal

JaiGieEse wrote:

Apple will shut down its photo book, etc., service... (show quote)

Apple was in the photo printing business ?

JaiGieEse Loc: Foxworth, MS

Photo books, etc., via iPhoto and then Photo. Uou might try reading the link.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

JD750 wrote:

Apple was in the photo printing business ?

Yeah, a really stealthy business unit.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

JaiGieEse wrote:

Photo books, etc., via iPhoto and then Photo. Uou might try reading the link.

It was JOKE ok?

However I love Apple hardware products, and MacOS, but I have been burned by Apple application software products. Apple often identifies a unique opportunity, to writes software to sell their hardware. And they create a quality product. However when competition turns that niche into a commodity, Apple just drops it and moves on. Apple is a development company, and a hardware company, not a sustaining software company.

There are many examples of this. The most recent and perhaps memorable is Aperture. And how can anyone forget the Final Cut Pro fiasco, when Apple basically alienated the entire Film Industry, and lost them as customers.

So good you warned people of the upcoming changes. But another warning is don't depend on Apple's Application software to be around forever. That includes Photos.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Yeah, a really stealthy business unit.

Ha ha ha ha ha. ;)

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

JD750 wrote:

It was JOKE ok? br br However I love Apple hardw... (show quote)

Final Cut 10.4.1 is fabulous! It’s WAY faster on the Mac than Adobe Premiere on a Mac... or a similarly equipped Windows box! It’s also far more intuitive if you’re already used to Macs. And it can open and edit iMovie projects.

FC 10.0 WAS a bit of a disappointment for working pros. By 10.2, though, it was very usable.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

burkphoto wrote:

Final Cut 10.4.1 is fabulous! It’s WAY faster on the Mac than Adobe Premiere on a Mac... or a similarly equipped Windows box! It’s also far more intuitive if you’re already used to Macs. And it can open and edit iMovie projects.

FC 10.0 WAS a bit of a disappointment for working pros. By 10.2, though, it was very usable.

Maybe so but most of the people I know in the production business have moved on to other software. They couldn't wait for apple to fix their mistakes months to years later. Apple lost most of that market. Maybe some will return. Business-enterprise people can't tolerate a release that removes critical functions they need. It's very different market with different demands from the general computer user market. In this respect, for this market, u-soft does a better job than Apple. And u-soft is not great at it.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

JD750 wrote:

Maybe so but most of the people I know in the prod... (show quote)

My son is in film, stage, and screen at Western Carolina University. Most of the work there is now on Final Cut. He has worked on a few professional films with alumni, and their editors used it, too.

FCP seems to be popular with younger filmmakers who didn’t live through the 2010 transition.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

burkphoto wrote:

My son is in film, stage, and screen at Western Carolina University. Most of the work there is now on Final Cut. He has worked on a few professional films with alumni, and their editors used it, too.

FCP seems to be popular with younger filmmakers who didn’t live through the 2010 transition.

That makes sense!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

JD750 wrote:

That makes sense!

I used Final Cut Express 4.0.1 back in the late 2000s. The interface was very similar to FCP7. So when I got to Final Cut X 10.x, I had to re-learn everything. It was a lot like going from iMovie HD 6 to iMovie 10.1.9. The layout is completely different.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

burkphoto wrote:

I used Final Cut Express 4.0.1 back in the late 2000s. The interface was very similar to FCP7. So when I got to Final Cut X 10.x, I had to re-learn everything. It was a lot like going from iMovie HD 6 to iMovie 10.1.9. The layout is completely different.

So my critique of Apple, is that for a professional, time is money. Making major changes to the interface, or functionality, costs money. New and "better" is fine for a development company's software, but stable with bug fixes is a much better way to update an enterprise software. The new and "better" program can always be offered as a separate program, thus allowing the customer base to adapt without having a big time/cost hit forced upon them.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

JD750 wrote:

So my critique of Apple, is that for a professional, time is money. Making major changes to the interface, or functionality, costs money. New and "better" is fine for a development company's software, but stable with bug fixes is a much better way to update an enterprise software. The new and "better" program can always be offered as a separate program, thus allowing the customer base to adapt without having a big time/cost hit forced upon them.

But how can anyone defend the afterbirth on toast that is Microsoft Word? I have used it since early Mac versions, but it is insufferable.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

burkphoto wrote:

But how can anyone defend the afterbirth on toast that is Microsoft Word? I have used it since early Mac versions, but it is insufferable.

Ha ha ha agree! But it is still around. Unlike the early Mac programs. Remember McDraw? It was great. Remember Aperture? I could go on. I love Apple products. When they want to Apple makes great software but they are a development company, not an application software company. They invent software to sell their hardware, sometimes they fill a a void or add a new feature, something no one is doing, then when the software crowd catches up Apple moves on.