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It appears that there are still some nasty iPhoto bugs:

1) Events are presented in random order (not chronological or alphabetical.

2) Within events and albums, pictures again appear to be in random order (not by title or time-date stamp).

3) Despite all this, journals actually present photos in date-time order. When using the slideshow mode in a journal, you can tap a picture and see the date and time it was taken. Unfortunately, the local viewing time zone is then shown (with a daylight savings time note if that was in effect when the picture was taken). It uses the local time (in my case, PDT or PST) even if the photo was taken in a different time zone. When exported to the web, the time zone indication is dropped, giving only the clock time (11:49:30 AM rather than 11:49:30 AM PST) for a picture taken a bit before noon in London, UK)

Do I have to purchase it for each of my devices?

tonycirocco, on 02 May 2012 - 05:34 AM, said:

Just like every other iOS app, you only purchase it once and then you can use it on all of your iOS devices.

Sort of mind blowing the size of these updates! It's 1.3gb. That's pretty staggering for mobile updates. For those who will download ota this would be a huge problem. Also since I have several iOS devices, I will do a 1 time download to home, then sync via USB.

For heaven's sake, is it really necessary to dump more than 1GB on users in updating apps? What about people still on dial-ups in rural areas? Drive a few hundred miles or more to an apple Store?

Petew, on 02 May 2012 - 02:57 PM, said:

I guess "downloading in rural areas" is the replacement for the outrage over glossy screens - since time and time again the whole glossy screen thing never really panned out for the complainers.

One non existentent outrage is as good as another I suppose

Does this mean that I must also dump these applications on my Mac as there has not been any change in the Mac version. I've already written off iWork since Apple has done many, many iOS updates while the Mac version is over 3.5 years old now. So far I have not purchased any of these programs for my iToys. I already have over 3 spreadsheets & word processors for my many iToys. Photos are handled on our Macs & then synced.

This story is as close as there is to Mac news. And it maybe telling of the death of another set of Mac programs. It has to me.

DocNo, on 02 May 2012 - 06:11 PM, said:

I like my glossy screen and don't live in a rural area

heisetax, on 02 May 2012 - 07:55 PM, said:

I saw the move of putting the apps on iOS devices a sign that an update will be forthcoming. Perhaps Apple just wanted their own offerings in the store while they can but it seems a big move if the related Mac Apps were in the state of dying. iWork.com was canned but nothing else. The suite's life is in jeopardy if there isn't an update by the time we have Mountain Lion

henryhbk, on 02 May 2012 - 07:04 AM, said:

There's a certain irony in the fact that Apple has allowed developers to do incremental updates to keep downloading minimal yet themselves refuse to do so. I have updates for most of Apple's offerings (plus a game or two) pending because downloading the 5 GB total to every device is just disheartening.