Hey Apple, how about Aperture 3?
I’ve been getting into photography a lot lately (you can see some of my amateur work on my smugmug gallery) and one of the decision I’ve had to take early on was to choose between the annually-updated iPhoto and Apple’s “pro” software Aperture to manage my library. I ended up with Aperture partly because of my desire to use a lot of plugins which Aperture 2 supports very well but the problem with the software is that iPhoto is updated every year and Aperture isn’t. iPhoto can export photos to Flickr and Facebook directly, it can recognize faces of your friends and can map the photos on a map.
To say that I wouldn’t mind having those features around is an understatement. There’s also a lot more I wish Aperture would do, including perhaps native export to some of the popular online sites to host photos (other than of course Flickr). SmugMug would be welcome in my case but there are others. We live in such an interconnected world now with medias being uploaded all the time, it makes sense to have native support for those online destination.
Hopefully we’ll see a new version announced in the new few months.
