Re:My Thoughts (Score 1)

Your a&b points have to deal with finding an app to replace Photoshop which Aperture is not ment for. You use Apeture to import, sort, minor tweaks and print/publish. If you want to do editing of the image then you export it to Photoshop. The answer to your question c is yes. What their touting as a "first of its kind" is the how they work with the RAW file. With apeture you get all the corrections you've done with your image without creating a new file or destroying the original RAW/jpg. If the RAW converter was actually working properly then it would be a great tool but as for now its only useful for the non-professional crowd. Hopefully by 1.5 or 2.0 they'll have fixed some of the major problems that the ars technia article talks about.