Buried among the commotion surrounding Google’s decision to close down Google Reader is the fact that Google is also discontinuing Snapseed for the desktop (Windows and Macintosh). I reviewed Snapseed for the iPad earlier this week. At present, the iPad version of Snapseed is still being sold, and previous owners of Snapseed desktop can continue to use it, but Snapseed for desktop will not be sold any longer. I think this is a loss.
Snapseed was developed by Nik which Google bought last year. I hope that Google does not discontinue or significantly change any of the other Nik modules and plug-ins. Nik’s tools are first rate photo processing tools. If Google were eventually to shut it all down, I’d wonder why Google bought Nik in the first place.
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