Patent shows Aperture on iPad

This isn't a patent for Aperture running on the iPad. It's a patent for the iPad controlling a Mac ap as an input device.

Look at the original art on the Patently Apple page. This isn't showing Aperture running on an iPad. The GUI there is the Mac GUI, not iOS. The original patent, which is cropped in the photo here shows that this is for a device to control the Mac, much like a Wacom tablet.

The screen in this patent isn't the iPad but a Mac, being controlled by the iPad.

At it's core, Aperture is just a grown up version of iphoto. Editing is only very very basic in both of them.

Eventually it probably will turn up on the ipad but likely just as a grown up version of Photos. Or perhaps even within that app. And all it might contain is the ability to rotate pics (with seem to get messed up when you do imports from some kinds of camera), keyword, faces perhaps and maybe make albums and edit events. But really not anything else.

Er, I'm not sure about this. I absolutely love Aperture but I'm not convinced it is something suitable yet for the iPad. The primary function of Aperture on the desktop is to manage RAW images in a non-destructive format. This basically means the images you are handling are going to be large (11MB from my Nikon compared to 4MB for the equivalent JPEG) images on a device with very limited storage capacity and you need a fair amount of processing power to apply adjustments. Storing the images in the cloud rather than on the device may help the storage issue but I don't think the iPad yet has the power to do what Aperture on the desktop does unless the plan is only to release Aperture Lite. Heck, the application can sometime feel sluggish even on a Core i7 iMac with 8GB RAM and my image files are small compared to what some DSLRs are generating today.

You could makes things easier be removing the RAW management and non-destructive editing but then all you'd have is iPhoto.

I am looking forward to that. It's going to be awesome. iPhone will be all good

Since Adobe released some iOS Apps recently to assist the workflow on the Mac/PC rather than doing the heavy editing on the device, I could also imagine Apple to release an "Aperture Retouch Helper App" ... basically to brush in/out adjustments, nicer color level adjustments by touching the curves, etc. However, after GarageBand and iMovie, heavy standalone iPad apps from Apple become also thinkable.

OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
*fingers crossed*

I hope this comes true!! I don't even need or necessarily want to much editing, I just want a good way to organize photos and mark keywords or ratings.

I hope this comes true!! I don't even need or necessarily want to much editing, I just want a good way to organize photos and mark keywords or ratings.