> On Dec 20, 2018, at 2:42 PM, Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Dec 20, 2018, at 5:35 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:48 PM Rick Womer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 1. I have LR 6.14 installed on my computer. Why should it be updating >>> anything from Google? >> >> You don't have maps and images of the whole world on your computer. >> When you use the mapping module in Lightroom, it accesses Google's >> servers for the maps and images. > > I’ve never used the mapping module in LR. I =did= use my keywords, a lot! > I really have no idea what to do here.
Hi Rick, Nothing about the Google API change should affect your keywords, and the only thing that is broken in LR 6.14 is the Maps module … which I've never used. What problem are you running into with keywords? I have LR 6.14 running on my macOS system (macOS X Mojave) right now. Nothing's wrong with either my keywords or anything but the Maps module, which I have never really used at all. So I just edited the top bar and removed it's module key so I don't click on it accidentally. >>> 3. Why are the people who run large tech companies such jerks? >> >> Maintaining and old API in addition to the new API would incur costs >> to Google, which they do not wish to incur. Adobe incurs costs >> updating Lightroom to the new API, and they recover these costs >> through the subscription pricing model, which you have elected not to >> pay. This is, to be frank, an example of why even "software that's >> finished and works" requires maintenance, and why software companies >> are moving to subscription models to the degree that the market allows >> them to do so. > > Adobe’s terrible customer service has always indicated to me that they don’t > give a damn about their users once they have their money. So I guess I > shouldn’t be surprised when they disable a vital feature in order to maintain > a couple of bells-and-whistles. Hmm. While I have my beefs with Adobe and their attitudes, and certainly with their "subscription is everything" policy of the present, I have to say that I've never had any issues (other than that they're slow and it often takes a good bit of effort to find/get what I need out of them) with their customer service when I've used it. I dislike the subscription model because, as they have it configured, it's not a good match to my needs and there's no longer any way around it if I want to keep up to date on their tools. My solution is to switch to other tools, eventually, when Adobe tools I have stop working. The Google Maps API is one part dead, but it's a part I never really use so it's not of much importance to me. Same for the Publish Services, and Book and Web modules … never used them other than to test things, so I just ignore them. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
