Comments on: Apple fights back with Aperture 2

The company touts better speed, a streamlined interface, and new editing tools for its high-end software for editing and cataloging "raw" photos. Plus: A price cut to $199.

[Galaxy5]

Thanks a lot, Apple

I have to say I'm not very impressed. As an Aperture 1.0 early
adopter, I feel burned.

I put up with no updates for a year, then the lackluster 1.5
update. Additionally, the lack of prosumer RAW converters (I
don't always take my best gear out to the kids' soccer game,
some love for prosumer Fuji RAW would be nice) and the general
lack of communication about this software from Apple has been
anathema to most photographers.

If there was an easy way to get all my old work out of Aperture
(that didn't require me to buy another couple of disks) I'd move
to Lightroom today.

[NoDeceit]

Great Update

Apple created this line of software and they have again pushed the
envelope again. Apple knows how to make software work with
you instead of against you. No need to read a manual to use the
thing. 5 stars from me.

[Waam]

A welcome update

I'll take this update. It's been a while coming.

[NoDeceit]

About time

Apple created this line of software and they have again pushed the
envelope again. Apple knows how to make software work with
you instead of against you. No need to read a manual to use the
thing. 5 stars from me.

[gggg sssss]

Apple irrelevant

when you consider the vastly larger number of potential Windows machine users. Since lightroom and PS run on the Mac, why would anyone want to buy Apple-only software in 2008? Any Apple "feature" can be cloned by Adobe in a heartbeat. Plugins? Adobe wrote the book. How hard would it be to open up LIghtroom to the huge number of Photoshop and After Effects plugins?

[Thomas, David]

A dying light

provides narrow vision in the dark. Simply put, that is where your
mind is. If anything, Apple is quite relevant, and every respectable
person in the industry would agree.

[Shankland]

Actually, plug-ins are difficult

Because of Lightroom's nondestructive editing methods, it's actually *not* a simple matter to move Photoshop plug-ins over to Lightroom.