Let’s face it: iPhoto sucks. It’s slow. It’s buggy. It’s hopelessly burdened by skeuomorphic elements. It’s just behind the times.
That’s why we were excited when Apple said last year it would phase out iPhoto for a brand new app with a feature set somewhere between iPhoto and Aperture. The successor app was supposed to be available in early 2015, but it appears that Photos for Mac has been delayed.
In the updated iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ, Photos for Mac is now said to be coming “at a later date” whereas previously, Apple was giving a firm release date of “early 2015.”
Since early 2015 would seemingly place it in the first three months of the year, it appears Apple no longer thinks it can meet a March 2015 deadline on the much-anticipated Photos app.
And possibly later. Keep in mind, Apple just clarified that its previous prediction for an “early 2015” launch for the Apple Watch actually means April 2015.
Why not be similarly clear about when the Photos for Mac app will come out? Probably because its release date is less set in stone … and the software could debut later.
Let’s hope, despite Apple’s hedging, that Photos for Mac gets here sooner rather than later. I’m eager to ditch iPhoto for good, and I can’t be the only one.
Source: Apple
Via: App Advice
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
22 responses to “Photos for Mac might be delayed for a while”
I must be one of the only one who likes iPhoto…hopefully when they make the change it will still allow organization by events or folders and not go the way of the iOS versions of the programs…
As much as I want this to come out, I’d rather them take their time and get it right than unleash a bug-riddled piece of crap that makes us pine for the good ‘ol days of iPhoto. iPhoto is a clunky mess but at least it gets the job done.
Given all the recent hand-wringing about Apple and software bugs, I would rather them take a little extra time to make a great piece of software rather than release a minimum viable product and patch it later. Just don’t take too long.
Apple software is a joke right now. Maybe they should just give up developing their own stuff and buy in some decent software to give away with every new purchase.
Apple delivered Swift this year, which is brilliant to the point of having historical significance. Not a joke. But if there is decent software to be bought, could you please suggest the best for someone with a massive photo collection?
I moved to Adobe Lightroom as I got serious about photography. Right now easily the best of the bunch. There are some ways to move your collection over.
iPhoto is useless to me
^ Constructive and totally meaningful comment.
OK, if I want a real software to edit photos I go with the best ones, Photoshop and Lightroom, and if I want a software to play with photos I use Picasa. iPhoto was useless and still useless to me, I don’t get pay to develop software and as an user that is my opinion.
I like iPhoto. But I am also in search of a way to backup all my photos from iPhones and other cameras that my wife and I can both access online. I can’t seem to find the best solution.
Just get it over with and buy Pixelmator. They have a great product and it already has the eco friendly iCloud integration. This is one of those cases where Apple should just focus on innovation of new products and purchase a product that works and is powerful.
We heard you the first time. Pixelmator is an image editing app, not a photo library manager. BIG difference.
Yeah the point is they have the library with little or no editing software. This where they need to merge iCloud Photos, tagging, and Pixelmators editing to make a real Lightroom competitor. Aperture was never a real Lightroom competitor.
Then you can’t compare them. Apples and oranges. Lightroom is the only thing that comes close. Maybe you should’ve used that as your comparison?
Early means the first 4 months not the first 3 months so April would still be early 2015.
Just get over it and purchase Pixelmator. It is a well know, widely used application with iCloud integration and handoff. To me this is a smarter move than purchasing Beats.
iPhoto rocks for me. I have several thousand and it performs just fine. Mac user of 20+ years, never experienced any lag or anything.
I think if iPhoto didn’t put everything into a single library it’s perform much faster since it wouldn’t have to verify itself every time you add a single photo.
“Let’s face it: iPhoto sucks. It’s slow. It’s buggy.” <- and that's where you should have stopped. Nobody gives a crap about "skeuomorphic elements" as long as the software works.
New product = other products suffer. Apple likely put most of their resources into the Apple Watch.
Great for those who want to purchase a $300 watch not so great for the folks that are waiting for the next photo software.
“hopelessly burdened with skeuomorphic elements”… Wow, utterly laughable! When you drink the punch, you must do so from a 55-gallon barrel. Apple has taken two heavily used, and well liked enough apps and replaced it with one that is 100% free of skeuomorphic elements as well as an existence. Let the Inquisition continue.