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Prediction Thread: Version of iLife and iWork in 2010?
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cwkmacuser
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May 17, 2009, 12:14 AM
 
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Hi everyone. I was wondering, do you think there will be a new version of iLife and iWork next year. Should I get version '09? Should I wait so I don't have to upgrade twice? What are your thoughts/predictions/advice?
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May 17, 2009, 03:07 AM
 
There will be a new version EVERY year (or two years).

iLife 09 rocks. So does iWork 09.

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May 17, 2009, 01:03 PM
 
I would say go for it. I only use iPhoto but the built in ability to upload to Facebook and Flickr are welcome additions, as well as the geotagging and faces feature. Those alone are worth the price. Plus, I personally hate being behind in version numbers

As far as iWork goes, Numbers seems to be greatly improved, but I rarely use the program to justify buying it. I tried the demo, didn't use it much so I ended up removing it.
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May 17, 2009, 01:23 PM
 
Does the faces feature work even when the face is at an angle, or if you show the back of their head?
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May 17, 2009, 05:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by cwkmacuser View Post
Does the faces feature work ... if you show the back of their head?

Did you really mean to ask if a feature designed to recognize faces would work on the back of someone's head?
     
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May 17, 2009, 10:15 PM
 
Facial recognition, while cool, isn't very useful. I'd much prefer it if they added more functionality in editing photos and generating web galleries.
     
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Dec 27, 2009, 03:58 AM
 
Originally Posted by cwkmacuser View Post
Does the faces feature work even when the face is at an angle, or if you show the back of their head?
a face is the front of a head, not the back or the side
     
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Dec 27, 2009, 11:20 AM
 
Faces does work and it seems to only get confused with blood relatives (e.g. it will mistake brothers sometimes or daughters and mothers, etc.). Fun to play with but not too useful...
     
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Dec 27, 2009, 12:03 PM
 
It also gets confused by trees, hands, toddlers or adults with similar facial expressions, and occasionally it even mismatches skin color.

Even more annoying, however, are the hundreds of instances in my library where it simply failed to recognize that there was a face in the picture at all.

Nice, and I love the idea, but it's just innacurate enough to be completely useless.
     
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Dec 27, 2009, 01:17 PM
 
Originally Posted by cwkmacuser View Post
Does the faces feature work [...] if you show the back of their head?


Seriously...

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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
Nice, and I love the idea, but it's just innacurate enough to be completely useless.
Originally Posted by cgc View Post
Fun to play with but not too useful...
Originally Posted by cgc View Post
Facial recognition, while cool, isn't very useful.
I have to completely disagree with those statements.

While I acknowledge that the face detection is not perfect and sometimes brings up confusing results, the ability to easily TAG people's faces alone is worth a lot to me. Sure, I could create folders and dump each picture with faces I know off into it, but that's tedious. After some working with faces, the hitrate is >50% for me, which is good enough. The ability to mass-edit makes it workable, to say the least.

Personally, I would have upgraded to iPhoto 9 just for this feature.

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Dec 28, 2009, 07:01 PM
 
Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
I have to completely disagree with those statements.

While I acknowledge that the face detection is not perfect and sometimes brings up confusing results, the ability to easily TAG people's faces alone is worth a lot to me. Sure, I could create folders and dump each picture with faces I know off into it, but that's tedious. After some working with faces, the hitrate is >50% for me, which is good enough. The ability to mass-edit makes it workable, to say the least.

Personally, I would have upgraded to iPhoto 9 just for this feature.

-t
I've achieved a pretty high hit rate but when I import my photos I tag them which is 100% accurate and is easy with hotkeys (built into iPhoto '09). I think facial recognition is something to add to hype up the program. I'd really prefer Apple focus on other aspects of iPhoto.
     
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Dec 31, 2009, 02:38 PM
 
I'd wait until the end of January before jumping into the iLife/iWork bandwagon. There are rumors of an Apple event near the end of the month, so better safe than sorry.

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Jan 19, 2010, 08:48 AM
 
iLife 2010 coming out in 6 days! Get excited....
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Jan 19, 2010, 07:00 PM
 
Hopefully iWork 2010 comes out with it, as it traditionally has done.

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