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that particular bit was the fault of apple but the result was that
customers chose other products for that and other reasons.

It was slower and it cost more ... both are not the fault of the customer.

it only cost more for a brief time, and those who did pay $500 got a
$200 gift certificate when the price was cut.

apple did improve the speed in later versions but customers voted with
their wallets and aperture ultimately was canceled.

Apple originally asked $500, while Adobe started at $300. Sure, Apple
later cut their price...but so too did Adobe.

aperture later dropped to $199 while lightroom remained at $299, then
apple cut the price to $79 when it was on the app store, forcing adobe
to slash lightroom's price to $150.

lightroom was the better product and could justify the higher price.

It¹s utterly shocking that discerning customers chose cheaper AND better
over just having an Apple logo.

not at all. people don't buy for the apple logo and lightroom cost
*more*.

And this pattern is par for Apple, unfortunately: whenever their products
have to
compete on actual merit and price instead of the prestige of the logo...they lose.

also wrong. apple competes on functionality, just like every other
company.