There's a thread in dpreview that worries about Adobe threatening to pull the plug on vesions for Mac of upcoming Adobe software versions. It seems to be based on an unsubstantiated blog derived rumor.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=20319073
My response, not being an insider is to reject such ideas.
Adobe is very powerful but the guys are super smart. Apple provides a substantial part of their daily bread! I don't think Adobe wants to lose that: they are not so self-destructive nor so hungry!
Photoshop lightroom is a workflow product. It has a dominant position and the people that design the software are at the cutting edge of RAW processing and workflow thinking.
Adobe guys are young, energetic and creative. They are part of a large club with a loyal customer base and evangelists whose lives are measured in their work with Adobe.
I see none of this going away.
Aperture too is the product of creative minds. It too has some of the brightest guys planning the novel paradigms for imaging, versioning and SHARING files with photoshop.
Aperture designers know how good Photoshop and Lightroom are. So they put out an impressive processing and workflow tool themselves.
I see synergy. Not one tool will answer everyone's needs. We'll see how well Aperture does with batch processing of large files without premium video cards in the Intel PowerBookPro laptops. I imagine we'll see that PS might do better perhpas in certain mobile situations, where such theoretical limitations might be in fact be of practical significence.
This is where we have to wait and see.
CS2 is more RAM dependant while Aperture is more Graphics card dependant in some key applications.
Wait a while, and the areas where each excels will become evident and then we'll get the next round of great improvements.
Asher
