John Nack at Adobe on his blog has made a resume of an independent study carried by photography professionals on the software that they used. On the Mac, Aperture has a small presence. In 3 years it moved down from 14,3 to 12,5% whereas Lightroom passed from 26,6 to 44,4%.
This is not surprising.
Lightroom functions on many more machines than Aperture, in particular all configurations containing G4 and without restrictions on the level of the graphics card.
Adobe launched beta of its leading software free while Apple splashed about prefecting its software
For a long time Aperture was 50% more expensive than Lightroom and Apple took a long time to align the price.
Lightroom is much lighte
