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11/02/2012 10:33:29 AM · #1 |
Got an email saying that Google is buying Nik and if they transfer my account info to Google I will have to accept googles privacy policy.
First, I wonder why google wants that type of company and second I'm a little uneasy about letting them have any more information. Google is a company that if you mention a product in an email you start getting pop up ads for that product.
I think the public is lousing some precious rights voluntarily for the sake of a little convenience. If the government was doing this many would be outraged
Their privacy policy is basicly that you have none |
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11/02/2012 11:19:07 AM · #2 |
| Already a considerable thread discussing this here. |
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11/02/2012 11:24:39 AM · #3 |
Yes the word got out a while ago that Google had bought Nik Richard. Most likely to obtain their Snapseed software for mobile devices so Google can compete with the likes of Instagram now owned by Facebook. Many of us are worried that development of their more advanced plug-ins may drop by the wayside.
I got this same email and though I'm not that upset about (I use gmail already anyway) I was thinking it was pretty bold of them to say you can opt out of transferring your Nik info over to Google- but then you would lose your ability to get support for your product! People have paid hundreds for this product with the promise of getting support, and now they want to change the game? At the very least they could say opting out of the transfer will mean losing support after one year, but even that kind of bugs me.
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11/02/2012 12:56:18 PM · #4 |
How many of you remember when Adobe bought the free RAW converter RAW Shooter Eseentials and the paid version Pro? Many of us used it and thought it the best and faster RAW conveter on the market. They said they bought it so that they could incorporate some of it into Lightroom but never really did. In stead they abandoned RSE and RSP. At least those of us who bought the Pro version got a free copy of Lightroom 1 out of it. Hope the same does not happen with Nik once Google strips out Snapseed. I jsut can't see them going down the road of supporting a high end photo editing software that plugs into Lightroom and PSCS.
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11/02/2012 01:41:35 PM · #5 |
| Well, Adobe had a product that competed with RSE. Google doesn't HAVE any editing software, or at least didn't before they bought Nik. So I'd assume even if they DID decide to drop Nik after mining Snapseed, I'd assume they'd let someone buy it back and move forward with it. Wouldn't surprise me to see that happen. |
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11/02/2012 01:59:36 PM · #6 |
I'm peeved that Google bought YouTube.
I had one personality living on Google, and it had created a nice little empire there. I had another personality living on YouTube, and it had created a nice little empire there.
Now Google wants to mash them together, so I'm always logging in and out of stuff to keep them from touching.
:angryface:
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