Apple, do a demo version of Aperture like iWork '06

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It would be great if Apple released a 30-day demo version of Aperture that turns into a read-only version (a "reader" so to speak) after the demo expires.
This is what Apple did with iWork '06. It lets people try out the software for a while, but then still "play" with it after that point--but not save anything.
This would be a useful competitive strategy for that "other" new product that's available free in beta form. People like free, even if it goes away after a while. It's the whole addiction thing.
I'll submit this on the feedback page, too.

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Before the release of Aperture Apple made available
3 quicktime videos showing Pro's using the new
Application. Each Pro gushed and said they were happy
with it. They indicated that it solved many of their
problems. Looking at those commercials again I see
they were carefully tailored to hide the parts of the
Aperture that do not work. I see that the "Pros" were
in fact paid actors, even though their day job might
be photography. I know this because Aperture is not
capable of a complete work-flow for the production of
quality images by a professional photographer that
captures and post processes all the way to a final
image, ready for a stock house or magazine.
Given that at least one of the photographers in the demo movies worked with TIFF into Aperture I find your analysis incorrect. There is no one aspect so broken it would prevent you from using the tool end-to-end, especially when starting with a TIFF. And the people in the movies were using to some degree the Photoshop integration which gives you any ability Photoshop has to produced finished work - if you needed to do so. I can't see how they could not have completed the jobs on display.
What shortcoming of Aperture do you honestly think would have prevented finishing the work? Remember complaining about conversion quality for a camera not used in the demo does not count as that's not qhat they were using.
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What does this have to do with the original posters
point? Had Apple released a demo disk of Aperture
they would not have sold 1/10th of the copies they
did.
Given the many overly negative complaints like your own we see I believe Apple might sell 10x as many copies of Aperture if the populace at large realized how useful Aperture actually is instead of being scared away just because people do not like the RAW conversion for one camera and thus extrapolate that into the dubious claim that the whole product is generally unusable.