{"id":200,"date":"2005-10-20T21:24:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2005-10-20T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T02:24:43","slug":"apples-aperture-and-other-new-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/apples-aperture-and-other-new-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple’s Aperture (and other new products)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aperture\"<\/a>Well, Apple has sure been busy lately! A load of new products released last week, and then another load of new stuff again just yesterday. I guess they’re ramping up their line for the holiday season. There were the little things, bumps in the PowerBook line<\/a>, and bumps in the G5’s<\/a> (up to 2 dual-core powerPC processors – yes, 4!). The other item released was a piece of software called Aperture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aperture is an interesting piece of software, and an interesting step for Apple. I can remember reading rumors about Apple working on a “Photoshop killer” some time ago. I don’t know if this is it, or if Aperture will become that “Photoshop killer” that I read about. Right now Aperture isn’t quite equipped for killing Photoshop. It’s more like iPhoto on steroids that cost a WHOLE lot more ($499). I see Photoshop as photo manipulation software, and Aperture doesn’t quite have the bells and whistles in the manipulation category. Aperture (from what I can tell) is more of a powerful image catalogging application that has a few manipulation elements. It reminds me a lot of Adobe Bridge<\/a> (in the CS2 Suite). I like the interface on Aperture better (typical Apple), but the feature set looks pretty much the same. Aperture has is a pretty slick image organizer, but I wonder if Apple is looking to replace Photoshop sometime in the future. I guess it’s always good when there is competition, and since Photoshop really doesn’t have any it only works out for the consumer. I would just hate for Adobe to drop Photoshop for the Mac like they did with Premiere when Apple’s Final Cut Pro started getting popular. Photoshop does have a much larger Mac audience than Premiere did, but still it’s an interesting move by Apple. I really don’t see this as a Photoshop killer, but what kind of features are they going to add in subsequent versions? Could it become a Photoshop killer someday? Maybe then they could justify the price. Apple is charging $499 for Aperture! To me that just seems a bit high for an image cataloger. I guess we’ll see when and if people buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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