CameraBag, one of the most successful photo-processing applications on the iTunes Store, has made the transition to the Mac, and manages to get almost everything wrong.
CameraBag on the iPhone takes pictures from your Camera Roll and processes them to look like pictures taken with old film cameras. The names of the filters give away the models they mimic: Helga, Lolo, Instant and so on. On the iPhone this is fantastic, as the quick-and-dirty snaps you take there are wonderfully suited to this treatment. It also costs just $2, and has a handsome, simple, iPhone-esque interface.
Over on the Mac the problems start after downloading. There is no trial period at all. Launch CameraBag and you are prompted to enter name and serial number, with the application interface peeking tantalizingly from behind this dialog box. If you choose not to, the app quits. We know that, on the iPhone, there is no try-before-you-buy, but this is the Mac, sonny-boy, and we do things different over here.
Next is the interface, neither as elegant as the iPhone version, nor anything like what a Mac user would expect. It looks more like a Java app written for a PC. Thankfully, the results are fine, but we wonder why you would buy this when it costs $20. That’s a lot of money for something that works better on your phone, and for one tenth the price.
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