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It's great at, right? In addition to just being a general purpose photo editor. I cannot imagine Apple deciding we want to be in that business. We're going to keep developing Pixelmator Pro. And even if Apple did that, everybody with a memory is looking at them and saying, I think I'll take a pass.

It's great at, right? In addition to just being a general purpose photo editor. I cannot imagine Apple deciding we want to be in that business. We're going to keep developing Pixelmator Pro. And even if Apple did that, everybody with a memory is looking at them and saying, I think I'll take a pass.

I think I'll stick with insert whatever they're using now, whether it's Photoshop or Figma or any other of the big apps that compete in that realm or something smaller like Acorn where you're like, I don't want something that big and complicated or whatever.

I think I'll stick with insert whatever they're using now, whether it's Photoshop or Figma or any other of the big apps that compete in that realm or something smaller like Acorn where you're like, I don't want something that big and complicated or whatever.

Now, if Apple does take the guts of these apps and try to shove them into photos, again, especially with additions of like the cleanup feature and everything, does that mean Apple's not going to take Pixelmator's AI cleanup thing? And maybe spoilers for overtime, we'll probably talk about some of these features and how they compare later in the show.

Now, if Apple does take the guts of these apps and try to shove them into photos, again, especially with additions of like the cleanup feature and everything, does that mean Apple's not going to take Pixelmator's AI cleanup thing? And maybe spoilers for overtime, we'll probably talk about some of these features and how they compare later in the show.

Or like if you look at the feature list, will they say, okay, well, 90% of these overlap. So which one do we take? Do we throw away all the photos features for adjusting levels and curves and saturation and brightness and brilliance and all those other things and highlights and shadows or whatever and swap them all out for the Pixelmator Pro equivalents? Or do we do 50-50?

Or like if you look at the feature list, will they say, okay, well, 90% of these overlap. So which one do we take? Do we throw away all the photos features for adjusting levels and curves and saturation and brightness and brilliance and all those other things and highlights and shadows or whatever and swap them all out for the Pixelmator Pro equivalents? Or do we do 50-50?

Or do we just delete the entire code base of Apple Photos and replace it with Pixelmator? And how does that work across platforms?

Or do we just delete the entire code base of Apple Photos and replace it with Pixelmator? And how does that work across platforms?

like i don't as great as pixelmator pro is unless photos is going to become a pixelmator pro caliber image editor i don't want them to take the subset of features that are in pixelmator that are in photos and extract them from pixelmator pro and shove them in photos because as a user the result of that is the next version of photos i get has all the same features but it's

like i don't as great as pixelmator pro is unless photos is going to become a pixelmator pro caliber image editor i don't want them to take the subset of features that are in pixelmator that are in photos and extract them from pixelmator pro and shove them in photos because as a user the result of that is the next version of photos i get has all the same features but it's

code that was ripped out of another app and shoved into an existing app and it's probably buggy because of that not because it was buggy when it was pixelmator pro but now they're just like ripping the guts out and shoving it in there and from my experience it's not any different did you add any new features well no but now they're pixelmator powered does that make a difference to me are they appreciably better than they were in photos like

code that was ripped out of another app and shoved into an existing app and it's probably buggy because of that not because it was buggy when it was pixelmator pro but now they're just like ripping the guts out and shoving it in there and from my experience it's not any different did you add any new features well no but now they're pixelmator powered does that make a difference to me are they appreciably better than they were in photos like

I don't understand this, which is why when I look at it as an acquihire, you said they probably wouldn't have paid all these potential millions of dollars for developers. But there is something to be said for exactly how difficult it is to find good Mac developers. As we've said many times, I'm not sure how many good Mac developers there still are inside Apple. Let alone out there in the world.

I don't understand this, which is why when I look at it as an acquihire, you said they probably wouldn't have paid all these potential millions of dollars for developers. But there is something to be said for exactly how difficult it is to find good Mac developers. As we've said many times, I'm not sure how many good Mac developers there still are inside Apple. Let alone out there in the world.

And so this is just like a unicorn where it's like a group of dedicated hardcore Mac developers familiar with Apple's platforms who are actually good at making Mac apps. I think Apple does probably want those people. But yeah, it's probably too much money to just pay for the people. So I really don't know what they're going to use these apps for.

And so this is just like a unicorn where it's like a group of dedicated hardcore Mac developers familiar with Apple's platforms who are actually good at making Mac apps. I think Apple does probably want those people. But yeah, it's probably too much money to just pay for the people. So I really don't know what they're going to use these apps for.

on your stuff i mean it seems to me like it would it would be more than that that this is more of a test again we don't know the actual numbers we're just guessing because people are saying like oh they they wouldn't have needed to submit it for regulatory approval unless it was over some amount like apple to be clear no one announced how much this acquisition is for so we don't actually know so that is an unknown

on your stuff i mean it seems to me like it would it would be more than that that this is more of a test again we don't know the actual numbers we're just guessing because people are saying like oh they they wouldn't have needed to submit it for regulatory approval unless it was over some amount like apple to be clear no one announced how much this acquisition is for so we don't actually know so that is an unknown