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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
06-18-2018, 08:46 AM
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Of course there is no guarantee they'll recover. I am optimistic they'll stick around; it did seem they are making an effort with Nik, and they bought the software just before going to ch.11. I can't imagine they would have purchased it if they didn't have some confidence about where they were headed.
As it is, I see what they are doing as a method of showing that they are going somewhere with this. They just bought Nik a year ago. The software hadn't evolved for years, and I imagine that given the short time frame since buying it, most effort was made in just updating things for efficiency and more modern computer architecture. I suspect the next steps are to more evolve things through (a) new features and (b) integration into PhotoLab. But, I don't know that will go too fast.
My only wish is that they'd acknowledge that if we buy the $49 Nik collection now, that we'll be able to upgrade it until they get to their first real changed release. I would hate to buy it and then need to pay for an upgrade because a year or two passes with slow development.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
06-08-2018, 01:23 PM
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I think way back, the software was close to $250 for the whole suite. When Google bought it, they cut the price down to the $100 range. Then they chose to stop any development of the software and give it away for free.
DxO just bought it last fall/winter. I would hardly have expected them to do much to advance the software, and it has been many years since the code was last updated.
I suspect, DxO's big effort was in streamlining the code and bringing it up to modern standards. Streamlining it probably speeds the program up a bit (maybe negligible unless you have a slower computer), probably makes it 64-bit compliant, and probably eliminates a lot of deprecated code while perhaps making efficient use of it. For instance, the software was more about each software being sold independently. Consequently, each program may have had the same code in certain places, where now DxO has removed the redundant use of code... I'm just speculating.
I will likely buy the software because I want to support the company and further development of the PhotoLab and Nik collection. I am hoping success of the software will keep the company going (fully recognizing that they are bankrupt and potentially a goner). The software is generally better than free software, and I've never paid for it before and don't mind now knowing I've already gotten by $49 worth of value out of it historically.
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