how apple's aperture created a new class of app on october 19, 2005 and lost it to adobe lightroom

How Apple's Aperture created new class of app on October 19, 2005 and lost it to Adobe Lightroom.   the reaction was to assume that this was Apple attempting to make their own version of Photoshop.   Mac is the computer of photographers across the world and Aperture addressed genuine need.   What amazed me about Aperture is that you can work with RAW files, you can loupe and stack them and it's almost instantaneous, said Kluetmeier..   That 1.0.1 release of Aperture came on December 21, 2005 and then on January 9, 2006, Adobe released beta of Lightroom for Mac.   It was for Mac then, too, so at the time it seemed like Adobe copying Aperture..   Apple turned to Sports Illustrated, David Bergman, that even Aperture's new RAW processing gives me better images with more visible detail and better color rendering than any other program I've tested...   There was one bug fix 3.5.1 in November and then October 2014, Apple released Aperture 3.6 and the sole feature of that was compatibility with OS X Yosemite..   Neither app was tool for everybody, Aperture was and Lightroom is application, and what they set out to do, did create new class of software for users pro and casual.   Keep up with AppleInsider by downloading AppleInsider for iOS, and follow us on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook for live, late-breaking coverage.   Read more