Yeah, I am becoming too hard on Mac users. I grow more and more frustrated every day with Apple and some of it bleeds out into my postings. I'll try to be more neutral in the future.

I personally think that the biggest advantage for the Mac platform for auctioneers is in its simplicity to do complex things, right out of the box, like photo management and manipulation and video importation and creation. These are tools that are becoming more important for auctioneers, and since many auctioneers are sole practitioners (or very small companies), these tools need to be easy.

That being said, the ability to load Picasa on a Windows computer that most certainly auctioneers already have is an absolute boon. It is definitely better for the type of photo management most auctioneers do than anything else I have seen. Auctioneers, for the most part, don't need things like Adobe Bridge, Lightroom, or Aperture.

You are too hard on us Mac using auctioneers and our locked down platform!

Yeah, I am becoming too hard on Mac users. I grow more and more frustrated every day with Apple and some of it bleeds out into my postings. I'll try to be more neutral in the future.

I personally think that the biggest advantage for the Mac platform for auctioneers is in its simplicity to do complex things, right out of the box, like photo management and manipulation and video importation and creation. These are tools that are becoming more important for auctioneers, and since many auctioneers are sole practitioners (or very small companies), these tools need to be easy.

That being said, the ability to load Picasa on a Windows computer that most certainly auctioneers already have is an absolute boon. It is definitely better for the type of photo management most auctioneers do than anything else I have seen. Auctioneers, for the most part, don't need things like Adobe Bridge, Lightroom, or Aperture.

You are too hard on us Mac using auctioneers and our locked down platform!

Thanks for the comment, Brandon. I admit I may have been a little hard on iPhoto.

I find that the interface of iPhoto is better for working with photos than Picasa for me. My wife uses Picasa, because she uses Windows, and the things that frustrate her, are the things that are easier on the Mac, like dealing with folders and file structure.

In my opinion, most novices are better off with a program that can manage their photos for them. Although, I can see where Events in iPhoto could get unwieldy.

To say that iPhoto is a “lesser photo management system” is wrong, because it is every bit as capable as Picasa. It is just different.