{"id":6,"date":"2008-01-30T09:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:46:30","slug":"pma-2008-apple-software-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"PMA 2008 &#8211; Apple software predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 PMA photography show starts tomorrow, January 31st, and seeing I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/?p=3\">so good at predictions<\/a> (NOT!) here&#8217;s what I see happening by tomorrow:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mac OS X 10.5.2<\/li>\n<li>Aperture 2.0 (or at least 1.6)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My reasons for thinking this is happening are simple and obvious, mixed with a whole lotta hope. Here are the facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>confirmation that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardmac.com\/news\/2008-01-24\/#7656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac OS X 10.5.2 includes RAW support<\/a> for the new Nikon D3\/D300 cameral is included<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/message.jspa?messageID=6418567#6418567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aperture&#8217;s project manager&#8217;s post<\/a> on Apple&#8217;s Aperture discussion board about said lack of RAW support<\/li>\n<li>time between releases &#8211; last Aperture release (version 1.5) was on 09\/26\/06, 16-months ago!<\/li>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/services.pmai.org\/pma\/Exhibitors\/Exhibitors.asp?ListRange=0Z&amp;Prg_id1=EXPMA08&amp;prg_id2=EXPMA08\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"2008 PMA exhibitor list\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2008 PMA exhibitor list<\/a>, which includes Apple (they surely are NOT going to be showing the very same software they showed last year!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it. There are some seriously pissed-off Nikon D3\/D300 users out there and Apple has been rather mum about the whole thing, suspiciously mum if you ask me. I find it hard to believe that Apple simply doesn&#8217;t care, nor do I believe Apple would bother going to the 2008 PMA with nothing new to show.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be extremely surprised, and disappointed, if neither of my predictions come true by the time the show opens its doors tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2008 PMA photography show starts tomorrow, January 31st, and seeing I&#8217;m so good at predictions (NOT!) here&#8217;s what I see happening by tomorrow: Mac OS X 10.5.2 Aperture 2.0 (or at least 1.6) My reasons for thinking this is happening are simple and obvious, mixed with a whole lotta hope. Here are the facts: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weborican.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}