Aperture 1.5+ media coverage/reviews

Question

Has anyone else been struck by the lack of media coverage/reviews of Aperture after the 1.5 release?
Seems to me that a lot of criticism raised by reviewers concerning Aperture 1.0 and 1.1 were dealt with in 1.5 and subsequent releases (ability to reference, rather than manage, files being the biggest), but the reviewers who raised those criticisms have not done followup reviews. I'm not surprised that critics such as Michael Reichmann have not re-visited Aperture, since they have turned up as Adobe selected Lightroom alpha and beta testers. But, even Ben Long only did a "First Look" on 1.5 on the creativepro site, and never followed up with the promised full review.
On a related note, Lightroom is the subject of a number of dedicated websites with video "how-to's" etc., but O'Reilly's "Inside Aperture" and Bagelturf are the only ones I know of for Aperture.
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Answer 1

Let's be realistic, Aperture can only be used on a Mac and that's only 5 % of the market. Adobe had about 500,000 customers download their beta and a total of over 1,000,000 downloads. Photoshop is the 800 pound gorilla. Aperture is a wonderful product, but what Adobe does to answer the competition Aperture has created, will get much more press. Besides, NAPP and other organizations are built in Adobe advertisers and some base their livelihood on Adobe's new products and the need for quality training. Aperture will help sell more Macs and stands up quite well against Lightroom, but Lightroom's father is the 800 pound gorilla.
Jeff