> Metadata management, for rapidly finding images in a collection of tens of thousands, using modern database tools > Cull editing, rating, and sorting files For these folks, an OS-centered approach was extremely limiting. Lightroom (now Lightroom Classic) was born out of the frustrations of cottage industry, "mom-and-pop shop" professional photography studios and working professional photographers at commercial studios and photojournalistic agencies. Its fatal flaw (and major attraction) is that it is operating system-centered. Bridge had been around for many years prior to Lightroom's conception.
It was conceived primarily as a workgroup tool for use by graphic artists in agencies, publishing houses, corporate marketing departments, etc. Bridge, as you note, is a Digital Asset Manager. They evolved from two very different Adobe software user communities. Stars, Picks, Colors, added in LR don't appear in Bridge and vice-versa. But that's besides the point of this thread.I know they are not exactly the same, but Bridge is a DAM manager and I like some things about it BUT it's as if the two programs were written by different companies. It is true - that if you "do nothing" and don't take the step to register the app, there is no way they can know you've bought it. Why some folks think this is technically infeasible is beyond me - companies do it all-the-time. In fact I have several entitlements, from Affinity, that require that I have purchased and registered the app. I have the MAS version and upon registering it (within the app), Affinity does indeed know I have purchased the app (because you can't register the app unless you've purchased it). It also has nothing to do with Affinity having some kind of privileged access to the app store (which they don't).Īs an app publisher myself, I can tell you it's a common practice to KYC "know your customer" by having them register post purchase from the app store.
This has nothing to do with "giving anyone your apple ID and password". You are incorrect, and your responses may mislead people.
I am not going to give them my Apple ID and Password either. They really truly do not know for certain if I own Designer. One more time, Serif, like every software developer, has no access to the Mac App Store.