Apple's Aperture Reviewed

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has done an in-depth review of Apple's Aperture. Reviewer Dave Girard gives it a once over and walks away with a sour taste in his mouth. From the review: 'It is also disappointing to see form beat out function here, but hopefully this will be Apple's software equivalent of the G4 Cube. They have only themselves to blame: they set themselves up for a big fall by attempting to dig themselves a chunk of the pro market by purporting to have the lossless holy grail of imaging. The trouble with that is they obviously didn't have the engineering or expertise in RAW processing to pull it off or, if they did, they chose not to include it because of speed constraints due to Core Image.'"

Comments

Biased? and Negative

[millahtime]

Is this reviewer biased? The entire tone of the article is to nail Apple. An honest review does pull out the plus side of things (even if the pluses are small, few, and far between) along with the minuses.

Re:Biased? and Negative

[doggo]

It's very funny watching what happens when someone puts a comment on Slashdot that is in any way critical of [ ]. Usually, the moderation score goes up in the first few minutes, and then, as [ ]'s dittoheads are mobilized, more "Troll" points are added until the comment drops to -1, about an hour after the original posting.

Now here we have an article that's critical of [ ]. That doesn't happen often. Let's see what the dittoheads do.

Everyone loves Gimp! :)

[brys]

I am doing raw photo processing / editing with GIMP and simple command-line conversion program. I don`t need dual G4, 4GB of RAM, radeon 9xxx and a $500 program... Better spend this money on your camera :)

Re:My Thoughts

[poot_rootbeer]

Is someone going to provide me with a free Windows machine and pay me for the inconvenience of running Windows instead of OS X if I use Picasa?

For the price of Aperture, you could buy a Windows machine and run all the free apps you want on it...

Re:Finding flaws with a magnifying glass

[leaping_laughter]

My, that's hilarious.

Do you subscribe to any digital photography mailing lists or magazines? Memberships to any Apple or photography related websites? Own (not have, but own) any other Apple software?

I doubt it, based upon your sweeping assertion.

TV ads, to reach digital photographers? Rather a tight niche for ads during prime time, wouldn't you say? I don't know about your region, but there are no digital photography radio stations in my area. Perhaps ClearChannel should look into that. Newspapers? Didn't people read those back in the 20th century? Not where digital photographers get the bulk of their product news, I'll wager.

The hype in the digital imaging press surrounding Aperture has been set to 11 since the IBC tradeshow in Amsterdam, in September.

Count yourself lucky that you've missed it, so far.

Re:Finding flaws with a magnifying glass

[JourneyExpertApe]

Is it possible that you read the review looking for any flaws you could point out? It's a review; it's supposed to point out flaws. It doesn't matter to potential customers that it's only 1.0. It's not supposed to be considerate of Apple's feelings or the feelings of Mac Zealots. It's primary function is to help people make purchasing decisions, not to make your favorite company look good.

Reading your history, you seem rush to the aid of your dear Apple every time they are criticized. Your last post that wasn't about Apple or in an Apple-related thread was four months ago. I don't think I've ever encountered someone so devoted to a company they didn't work for. (Do you work for them?) Have you ever considered the amount of time you spend each day pondering the greatness of Apple? I mean, what do you get out of it anyway? It's not a religion, dude, it's just a company.

I don't understand Mac users. Why can't they just buy their iPods and Powerbooks and shut up about it? You do realize that membership in the Apple Fanboy Cult is optional, don't you?

Re:Finding flaws with a magnifying glass

[leaping_laughter]

Since you own plenty of Apple software (sorry, I should have specified Pro), you've received at least one hype mail for each one, regardless of whether you got it from FC Studio or individually. Since you own a mac, you received another mailing (with links to online puff pieces, as mentioned in the review).

Oh, to be so naive as to believe press hype is free. Enjoy!

Typical Apple

[Technomancer]

Piece of shit wrapped in shiny plastic.
While Apple makes some nice products, very often form takes precedence over the function.

Now Apple zealots mod me down.