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Ian.Dobinson wrote:
But didn't lightroom start when adobe bought (or at least hired the creators) of some other raw software?
IIRC — it has been a long time! — there was some ancestral connection between Lightroom and Aperture. I'm thinking that they may have shared a source point, which may have been that some of the people working on both programs had originally worked together.
My other now-fading recollection is that Aperture was developed first and that it had the clear potential to be the first potentially viable alternative and competitor to Photoshop, especially in that it came with an Interface that was built from the ground up for photographers rather than designers. One story is that Adobe, who had seen essentially no real competitors for Photoshop in a long time, took one look at what Apple was doing with Aperture, realized they had a potential problem on their hands, and quickly accelerated the development of Lightroom and pushed it out as a free "beta" in order to suppress interest in the Apple product.
Apple's interest in doing Aperture was likely some combination of wanting to simply do a really good and innovative take on photo software and wanting to have their own "pro app" in the photography market, as they already had with film/vidao (Final Cut Pro) and would arguable have with audio/music production (Logic). The main goal of this was most likely not to make a ton of money of the professional software, but rather to push the high end users into the Apple camp and sell them hardware.
That goal is no longer a big one for Apple, and for a variety of reasons.
Dan
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