Mac App Store Fallout

With the recent Mac App Store announcement,  wide spectrum of bloggers and well known tech sites are expressing concerns.
What especially caught my eye is the comment from Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch's (from http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/1369652253/mac-app-store) which reflects one of my primary concerns about Apple. He writes:

"Apple, a corporation with billions and billions of dollars in the bank, is taking 30% of small Mac developer’s revenue — an outrageously high fee, more than three times what popular high-end fulfillment provider FastSpring charges. Worse, Apple keeps customer data away from developers, standing in between developers and their users. Customer service and technical support suffer — Apple won’t even allow refunds to dissatisfied customers."

There is no doubt in my mind that Corporations exist solely for making profits. However what I dislike about the way Apple does is that it rips them off folks so badly all the while drawing strict boundaries on what one can or can't do (See iPhone: 4% of market, 50% of profit)
Some thoughts on the same can be found at
5 Criticisms of Mac App Store (And Why They're Wrong)
What Software Is Apple Going to Sell in the Mac App Store?
Devs voice concerns over Mac App Store terms
Apple's Mac App Store Review Guidelines Posted

Are Apple user's the happiest with everything Apple does?

Apparently not unless you live inside reality distortion field. One thing I really dislike about Apple is that they would produce what they think is the best for everyone. You heard it right, Big Brother Apple knows the best when it comes to deciding what you would prefer. So I sympethze with this user who shared his experience with his iLife 11 upgrade.

I just upgraded to iLife 11, only interested in iPhoto. I use it to store and display photos I edited in Lightroom and PS and so far up to this fateful day I have been perfectly happy with the flickr export, the slick look, the fullscreen, the easy mail and the other features.



So I was pretty happy when Apple touted the new iPhoto. Now I'm stuck with it and boy does it suck! Seriously I can't believe how bad it is. It's all in the details, the things you only see once it's on your system. Here's just a starter of shit:

• No fullscreen viewing. That's right, you cannot view your pictures without toolbars on top and bottom all the fucking time. Fullscreen, the main feature they advertise about iPhoto 11 is actually taken away. And no, i will not use the obnoxious diashow that throws music at me every time I open it!

• Mailing pictures. Before it was easy and fast. Click on whatever you want to send, Mail.app opens and you choose the size of the pictures and you're good to go. Not anymore, no sir, because there are templates now and Apple will make sure you goddamn use them. They all look ugly as fuck and most if not all of them will crop your pictures to match the template. And WHAT THE FUCK you can only mail 10 pictures max! What is wrong with the people who developed this? This is unusable even for my mom. Oh and when you actually send your less than ten pictures in a shitty cropped template of your very limited choice you can't do anything while it's sending. I was in fullscreen mode and it blocked the computer for several minutes. Well, you can do one thing and that is editing the mail while it's being sent. Why, Apple?

• When viewing albums all the flickr exports are displayed as albums as well. Because I exported most events to flickr it's like mixing the events with the albums. When I click albums I want albums. And stop using this cheesy photo pile look, Apple!

• EDIT: No zooming in anymore! I don't even...

• EDIT: Oh, and one more thing: Exporting now crashes my iPhoto because it's stuck trying to log on to Flickr. Everytime, without a chance do disable the Flickr issue.

I can't invest more time into this rant for health reasons but basically Apple has ruined iPhoto so utterly I can hardly believe it. And yeah, downgrading is nearly impossible without using a backed up version of the library. I just have the impression that the whole thing was rushed so Steve Jobs can present it himself. I hope he at least knows how bad it is.


It's shit like that Steve, shit like that!

Edit: Does anybody know a good program to simply display jpgs and have them neatly organized in events? I use Lightroom, so Aperture just for viewing is overkill.

Full post at http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/dvmf0/iphoto_11_fuck_you/. Someone mentioned that it crashes a lot too! And the comments are fun to read

UPDATE: There are more horror stories about iPhoto deleting their entire album etc. See discussion forum thread at Apple at Topic : WHERE are my PHOTOS????? . There is also WARNING!!! iPhoto 11 Erases ENTIRE iPhoto Libraries