Katie Marsal
The rumor comes from anonymous sources who spoke with the Dutch website Apple Weetjes, which does not have an extensive track record with respect to Apple rumors. It said the new version the photo editing software will be "largely inspired" by the newly released iPhoto for iOS.
The new iPhoto '12 will reportedly allow users to create a photo album and share it via iCloud. This would replace the MobileMe gallery function currently found in iPhoto.
In addition, iPhoto '12 is also rumored to allow users to easily transfer pictures from iOS devices with iPhoto installed. In this way, users could quickly edit and share photos between their Mac and iOS devices.
The report also said that photo retouching in iPhoto '12 for Mac will be "inspired by iOS." It said the new version will be available on OS X 10.7 Lion or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, but will not run on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
iPhoto for iOS was launched on the App Store in March, and was introduced alongside the third-generation iPad. It was dubbed by Apple as a "reinvention" of the preexisting iPhoto for Mac.
Apple revealed last month that it had sold more than a million copies of iPhoto for iOS in less than 10 days of availability. It is available for $4.99 on the iOS App Store, and is compatible with both the iPhone and iPad.
On the Mac, iPhoto was last updated in October of 2010 along with iMovie and GarageBand in the iLife '11 software suite. All three applications come free with every new Mac, while existing users can purchase the latest versions from the Mac App Store for $14.99 each.
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The features they are talking about, I think, are a given for an update. I even think we might find updates to both versions that would allow you to use your iPad or iPhone as a kind of touchscreen for the computer version. So if I want to 'paint' an effect on a photo I could do it on my iPad but it's the photo on the computer being changed. And so on. The only one that I question from their list is the notion of beaming photos from iOS to Mac. We can in effect do that via iCloud already so I'm not certain that Apple will be in a rush to add direct access in a 'wifi sync' kind of way.
What I also question is if this will be a new version of the software. I ask this because it would then require users to buy all over again and I'm not sure that Apple will do that. Especially since they have to buy again just to get the iOS version. There has always been a school of thought that Apple really makes their money on the hardware not the software so I could see them just dropping the numbers and simply having iPhoto for Mac and this is another point release you get for free
Why not just kill OSX all at once? Why this slow and painful transition to iOS on the desktop?
Hope something here is true. I don't want to have to move to Flickr.
Why not just kill OSX all at once? Why this slow and painful transition to iOS on the desktop?
Just to clarify for the people who don't know who you are, that's not what Apple's doing. For heaven's sake.
Why? Every single version of iLife has always been a paid upgrade for users. The initial version you get comes included with the hardware, but upgrades to the software, like the OS pretty much have always been paid.