[X4U] New Software for PPC

[Jim Robertson]

On 1/15/06 2:56 PM, "Linda" <XPressoBean at mac.com> wrote:

> How do we know that Aperture wasn't in development even longer? It's still
> possible that LightBox is reactionary rather than innovative.

Well, the first public beta of Lightroom has garnered some nice reviews, and
Apple's work on Aperture was pretty "hush-hush" until shortly before its own
program was released. One reviewer pointed out that Lightroom's use of Adobe
Camera Raw rather than CoreImage (with mandatory hardware acceleration) made
the Adobe product work with more cameras (there's a review on Macintouch
that mentions this, I think). Also, Lightroom doesn't bundle everything into
one huge database. I've not explored it yet, but that's a real concern with
Aperture.

I don't think the release of Lightroom means that Adobe and Apple are bosom
buddies again, and the demise of FrameMaker on the Mac while it's still
actively supported and developed on the PC is strong evidence of the testy
relationship.\

Jim Robertson
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