Well, not today, but a month from today, when version 1.6 launches on July 9th.
Since it first appeared, I’ve complained to NPS about the US$3.99 a month charge for using NX MobileAir with multiple albums and more than 999 files. This was a bit like charging your best customers for taking images. At events and sporting events it was easy to exceed the “free” limit, and the lack of multiple albums meant you couldn’t organize your session, such as separating images out by quarter or half.
Nikon quietly sent out a notice on June 3rd within the NX MobileAir app warning users about an issue if they weren’t updated to version 1.5 before the subscription mechanism shut down on June 9th. (Essentially, if you weren’t updated to 1.5 by June 9th, you’d either not be able to update to version 1.6 when it comes or lose all your on-mobile-device data.
NX MobileAir has had and continues to have a range of Someone Not Paying Attention issues that make it far less useful than it could be. NX MobileAir should have the Show credits and Add hashtag capabilities that SnapBridge does (though we'd need user-editable hashtags). The iOS version still doesn’t have the save/load camera settings capability the Android version does. Many of the features, such as using NX MobileAir as a remote, only work on one (or few) cameras. Ironically NX MobileAir doesn’t support either Nikon Image Space or Nikon Imaging Cloud.
Overall, Nikon’s software still seems to be a set of walled-off silos that never communicate. SnapBridge, NX MobileAir, and NX Field really should be a single, better designed, and better managed mobile app. It’s unclear why NX Tether isn’t simply a part of NX Studio, particularly since other products (such as the old Picture Control Utility) have found their way into that product. Finally, Nikon Image Space (NIS) and Nikon Imaging Cloud (NIC) seem like they don’t need to be separate (just have NIC write directly to NIS and sell extra cloud storage for NIS on the side). And let’s not forget that it’s been over two years now since Nikon acquired RED, and the RED software and firmware are still not integrated into Nikon’s download center.
So today? An eensy-teensy step forward for Nikon software, a smaller step for photographer kind.