The Lightroom import is a bad joke - you'll lose all your edits. I'd suggest Capture One, which is a far better product, has a decent import and is actually "mac-like" in its implementation. Nothing integrates in to the OSX ecosystem like Aperture though.
You don't "lose" your adjustments; they're essentially proprietary and still exist in Aperture, or Photos if you migrate. NO software can reproduce those completely; the only way is to export TIFFs. Capture One can import lots of 'em, but not all. As even Capture One used to note, their adjustments are better than Aperture's, so perhaps it's better to start over from RAW. Here's what they say transfers directly:
And that is exactly what I meant. Just like every business they have to make decisions. If there is a lot of competition it doesn't make much sense to join in on that. That same competition is also the reason why Apple's move isn't that bad.
They have always been a consumer company. They tried business but failed at that. That's why they asked IBM and Cisco to help them out.
No, they haven't been a consumer company, they've a company that markets to users (rather than corporations aka enterprise). Plenty of businesses have had a disproportionate amount of Macs (compared to the market as a whole), and Apple was able to gain a foothold in these markets because the employees want to use Macs. That's opposite to Microsoft's approach which conquered the IT departments from the top.
You can lose the quotation marks, you lose your adjustments just like you would if you migrated from Lightroom to C1P. Different RAW converters have different “sliders”, period. Different apps organize photos differently, and there may not be a correspondence within the new app you are migrating to (e. g. Aperture can embed folders, albums and books inside of projects).
Exactly.
What I getting at was that Capture One does a decent attempt to preserve what it can. Lightroom claims to have an "importer" but makes absolutely no attempt to preserve anything. Pathetic.
They had a cheaper version, Capture One Express, but discontinued it. Bummer. It is pretty expensive, but so is this hobby
That is what people mean with "consumer company": a company aimed at consumers aka human beings and thus no businesses, corporations, etc.
And many knives have been used as screwdrivers. That still doesn't mean that you can and should use a knife as a screwdriver nor that the manufacturers suddenly target their knives at the audience wanting a screwdriver.
It is not about the hardware or the OS it runs nor is it about enterprises because it is about creating the environment for it. IBM is required to understand businesses and to change things like the App Store and management options of the various devices. It also helps to create momentum for business apps. It's about creating a platform and making it attractive for others to use. It is more like trying to get CAD/CAM (sticking to the previous example) follow AutoDesk and start building OS X and/or iOS software.
That is just an opinion because reality is that the marketshare isn't all that much higher. The reason the marketshare is higher is most definitely not due to Macs but due to iOS devices. Many businesses and even municipalities and the like are using iPads (paperless office) and/or an iPhone. If you look at the tooling from Apple you can see that most of them are catered for iOS and not for OS X. The fact is that all of these are consumer devices and none of them has been solely meant for businesses. The products that actually were meant for businesses did not have these high numbers and therefore got canceled. Think Xgrid, Xserve but also their workgroup products in the MacOS era.
