Being the only company not letting you alter your photos isn't some holy crusade. Federighi was just giving a semi-decent excuse for why Apple couldn't offer what was being offered by others at the time. Apple (like every other company) have a long history of this, and there's no reason to hold Apple to any higher standard than anyone else.
Now they can, so they will. I don't see the problem with other people altering their own photos as they see fit. Presumably the holier-than-thou brigade who want historical accuracy can just ... not do that.
It's a whole different thing when you alter a photo to cause distress to someone else, but if someone's zooming in on their kids, changing the angle of the shoot, or rubbing out a bottle in the background, and you have a problem with that .... get a life.
If it gets people to enjoy photos they took even if transformed, I'd rather it over the alternatives of people just entirely generating slop altogether.
I know my way around photo editors, someone being able to easily remove a water bottle is the least of my concerns. Most of these are tasks few genuinely mourn having a required level of skill to do, and by large the vast majority of edits people will actually do with this are still relatively simple to anyone versed in photoshop.
For crying out loud
Being the only company not letting you alter your photos isn't some holy crusade. Federighi was just giving a semi-decent excuse for why Apple couldn't offer what was being offered by others at the time. Apple (like every other company) have a long history of this, and there's no reason to hold Apple to any higher standard than anyone else.
Now they can, so they will. I don't see the problem with other people altering their own photos as they see fit. Presumably the holier-than-thou brigade who want historical accuracy can just ... not do that.
It's a whole different thing when you alter a photo to cause distress to someone else, but if someone's zooming in on their kids, changing the angle of the shoot, or rubbing out a bottle in the background, and you have a problem with that .... get a life.
If it gets people to enjoy photos they took even if transformed, I'd rather it over the alternatives of people just entirely generating slop altogether.
I know my way around photo editors, someone being able to easily remove a water bottle is the least of my concerns. Most of these are tasks few genuinely mourn having a required level of skill to do, and by large the vast majority of edits people will actually do with this are still relatively simple to anyone versed in photoshop.