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Aperture was doomed from the beginning, the moment Adobe released Lr in beta. No matter how inferior Lr may have been, and no matter how good Aperture might have become, Aperture was not:
1. Cross platform compatible. A very big deal, and especially more so 8+ years ago, when PC's were more dominate, in the days before Intel, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad broadened the Apple Ecosystem user base. People who were PC based couldn't use Aperture, and people who used Macs often still had to use PC's, and wanted to be able to work their image files on either platform. That was an immutable built in handicap for Aperture.
2. An Adobe product. Just like those classic 90's era puzzle pieces fitting together in Microsoft's Office system marketing, where Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook all came from the same roof, shared dlls, and offered users a compatible and coordinated productivity "ecosystem", the perception of integration that Adobe Lightroom would have with Adobe Photoshop is inextricably linked. While reality has proven that shared rooftop program origination is not necessary, the perception still remains for new users deciding which camp to commit their learning curve climb toward.
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