Is AFFINITY dead?

[Johannes]

On 10/1/2022 at 3:41 PM, R C-R said:

Just hover the pointer over the name or avatar on the left in a reply from someone you want to ignore & you should get a popup with 3 buttons, one of which is "Ignore."

Ah, that is why I didn’t find it on iPad. Thanks. After following your advice on the desktop I found that typing the name here also works https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/ignore/

[v_kyr]

40 minutes ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

But, not that much time on the iPad version of Publisher - Serif Labs seems to have low prio on iPad nowadays…

iPad & Publisher, well personally I couldn't care less. - But if Apple keeps on their yearly announcement cycles, aka maybe a possible October event, or at least some new iPad Pro hardware & iPad OS update announcements this year, then Serif for sure will be aware of that and act accordingly.

[Affinityconfusesme]

is there going be an update within the next few months?

[v_kyr]

9 minutes ago, tzvi20 said:

is there going be an update within the next few months?

Well let's ask someone who will probably know what the future will bring ...

... oops the damned crystal ball slipped from her desk, thus she couldn't tell me for sure! 😉

[AffinityMakesMeSad]

30 minutes ago, tzvi20 said:

is there going be an update within the next few months?

No…

If we talk Publisher for iPad it could take around 10-14 month before release…

If we talking v2 on all three platform, then 2025…

[prophet]

9 minutes ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

If we talk Publisher for iPad it could take around 10-14 month before release…

If we talking v2 on all three platform, then 2025…

Seems like someone found that crystal ball.

[nezumi]

Nothing is as good as 13 pages of unsupported speculations mixed with questions that cant be answered at this time.

[thomaso]

"Everything has already been said, just not by everyone."
Karl Valentin, 1882 – 1948

[Granddaddy]

In the past, it has taken Serif 6 to 12 months to produce updates of APhoto 1 differing by only one decimal number (1.6, 1.7, 1.8, etc.) In between these releases there were often several updates to each of the decimal versions. In the four years since I bought my copy of APhoto there have been 18 such updates to APhoto 1. Every update was preceded by a public beta that was tested and commented on by users over months.

I am wondering why there is now so much excitement and speculation about APhoto 2 being released "soon" given that there has been no public beta of such a product.

Do users expect APhoto 2 will be released without a public beta preceding the release?

If so, is it logical to conclude there will be major improvements and changes included in APhoto 2 as compared to APhoto 1 given that relatively small changes and bug fixes in APhoto 1 undergo months of public beta testing before release?

 

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, tzvi20 said:

is there going be an update within the next few months?

You mean really "update" (version 1.10 to 1.11)? No - see Beta forum, where isn't any prepared beta version.

You mean "upgrade" (version 1.x to 2.x)? Hard to say - how many months is few months for you? In the development of such a complex software as ASuite for two/three platforms, several years can be "a few months".

[KC Honie]

23 hours ago, Toomaj said:

It seems dead to me too, no updates, nothing

Even if you are in the throws of coding version 2, you still have to fix the major issues in v 1.xx…  

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, KC Honie said:

Even if you are in the throws of coding version 2, you still have to fix the major issues in v 1.xx…  

It would be nice if that were true but unfortunately it is not at all uncommon in the software industry to not fix existing issues in one version & instead to focus on developing (& selling!) the next major release.

I am not saying Serif will not issue any more v1.x updates, only that they may not.

[AffinityMakesMeSad]

6 hours ago, Granddaddy said:

In the past, it has taken Serif 6 to 12 months to produce updates of APhoto 1 differing by only one decimal number (1.6, 1.7, 1.8, etc.) In between these releases there were often several updates to each of the decimal versions. In the four years since I bought my copy of APhoto there have been 18 such updates to APhoto 1. Every update was preceded by a public beta that was tested and commented on by users over months.

I am wondering why there is now so much excitement and speculation about APhoto 2 being released "soon" given that there has been no public beta of such a product.

Do users expect APhoto 2 will be released without a public beta preceding the release?

If so, is it logical to conclude there will be major improvements and changes included in APhoto 2 as compared to APhoto 1 given that relatively small changes and bug fixes in APhoto 1 undergo months of public beta testing before release?

 

The same thing can be said about Publisher for iPad - still no ”public” beta and no sign of a stable version of Publisher for iPad that has Studio Link not buggy as hell…

As I said earlier, don’t expect Publisher for iPad to be released until next summer/fall…

[R C-R]

12 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

... still no ”public” beta and no sign of a stable version of Publisher for iPad ...

Since iPad apps must come from the Apple app store & Apple does not permit public betas in its store, there will never be a public beta for any of the Affinity iPad apps.

This should be obvious if you consider that there never was a public beta for either AP or AD for iPad, so once again a strong indication that  @AffinityMakesMeSmile does not know what he wants us to think he knows.

Edited October 7, 2022 by R C-R
added details about AP & AD for iPad

[InfoCentral]

9 hours ago, AffinityMakesMeSmile said:

The same thing can be said about Publisher for iPad - still no ”public” beta and no sign of a stable version of Publisher for iPad that has Studio Link not buggy as hell…

As I said earlier, don’t expect Publisher for iPad to be released until next summer/fall…

I am still patiently waiting for the android version.

[AlainP]

I heard they are working on a Commodore 64 version....

[InfoCentral]

1 hour ago, AlainP said:

I heard they are working on a Commodore 64 version....

You sure that wasn't an Amiga version?

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, AlainP said:

I heard they are working on a Commodore 64 version....

I thought it was also for the VIC 20... 😀

[000]

I read somewhere it's also coming to VHS and Betamax

[prophet]

I can't wait for the table top board game version.

[Old Bruce]

7 minutes ago, prophet said:

I can't wait for the table top board game version.

With expansion packs.

[dcr]

If Affinity doesn't make the suite available for the Atari 2600, I'm going to have to go back to Adobe.

[Old Bruce]

1 minute ago, dcr said:

If Affinity doesn't make the suite available for the Atari 2600, I'm going to have to go back to Adobe.

Doesn't Atari have an emulator chip to enable running Mac OS 6.x 7.x? [dizzying flash-back to myself in the 80s emoticon]

[dcr]

2 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Doesn't Atari have an emulator chip to enable running Mac OS 6.x 7.x? [dizzying flash-back to myself in the 80s emoticon]

My Macintosh PowerBook 180c (1993) with Mac OS 7.x had an Atari 2600 emulator.  I tend to doubt the Atari 2600 would have been able to emulate Mac OS 6 or 7.  The Atari 2600 was a video game system.

There was a Mac emulator for the Atari ST which was a computer system.  Also an MS-DOS emulator.

I don't think the ST would have needed an emulator chip.  It used the same 68000 processor that the early Macs did.

[Old Bruce]

5 minutes ago, dcr said:

There was a Mac emulator for the Atari ST which was a computer system. 

That is most likely what I was (mis)remembering. Thanks.