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March 30, 2006

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Aperture Universal Binary delayed

Posted Mar. 30, ’06, 9:10 PM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

Aperture It doesn’t exactly instill confidence that Apple itself can’t just recompile and ship one of their own applications. They can’t even use an alternate IDE as a mitigating factor in their development. Aperture 1.1 (the first Universal Binary release) will not be meeting its projected release deadline. It’ll be April before it gets into our hot, sweaty little hands.

Buried in its announcement that it is shipping Final Cut Studio 5.1 as a Universal Binary for Intel-based Macs, Apple also announced that its Universal Binary version of Aperture, v1.1, has been moved back to April. The company originally announced a March release.

Again, I’m not saying Apple isn’t putting in the effort to make this transition as painless as possible. I’m saying they vastly downplayed the real difficulties associated with this kind of architecture change. Apple can’t keep slipping with its own projected completion deadlines or else it’s just going to encourage Microsoft and Adobe to let theirs slip as well.


3 Comments

James said:

"Apple can’t keep slipping with its own projected completion deadlines"

WTF?

1). Apple is months early with the entire transition. Even if you consider this Aperture announcement a delay (even though it's months earlier than the "June" we were promised for Intel ANYTHING), it likely has to do more with waiting for the RAW improvements in 10.4.6 than the Intel aspects. Remember, Aperture 1.1 is not simply a universal binary, but has a large amount of improvements/bug-fixes.

2) What other product has slipped that allows you to say Apple "keeps slipping"? Final Cut Studio was completley on time. Apple has what left to convert? Final Cut express and Remote Desktop? For 99% of the world, the Apple software transition is complete, all in less than 3 months. Apple was on point.

I see the point you are trying to make about setting an example for other developers, but there is simply no evidence that Apple has faltered. So quick with the doom-and-gloom and conspiracy theories...

March 31, 2006 12:20 AM
Chad Sager said:

Well, the delay may have more to do with making some much needed fixes in Aperture, and a new OS X update (which Aperture relies on to provide RAW support for more cameras) than it does from switching over to a Universal Binary.

March 31, 2006 7:23 AM
Derik Author Profile Page said:

James, "Apple also announced that its Universal Binary version of Aperture, v1.1, has been moved back to April. The company originally announced a March release." That's clear. They missed their projection.

Spin it anyway you like, it's still true. Is it the end of the world? No. Is Adobe taking extra time to do the same thing the end of the world either? I contend not, but from the comment I got on the recent Adobe Photoshop CS3 story, some people get overly angry when a third party developer is late or says it's not as trivial as Jobs said it was.

March 31, 2006 8:20 AM

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