40. (with egg)

It will not Just Work. Why? Mostly because iPhoto is the single worst Mac app ever written. I love my Mac. It rocks. Wouldn't give it up. But iPhoto is just about the most counterintuitive and restrictive app Apple has ever written. It does not Just Work. I could go on and on and on, and to their credit iPhoto '08 has copied many feature from Picasa, my favorite photo management app (Windows only :( ). Perhaps one day I will enumerate everything wrong with iPhoto, but right now I wont.

Why? Because I don't know. That's the thing about Just Works: it Just Works: you really don't know why. It is the principal of least astonishment: you should not be surprised by whatever happens when you use a program. It's not that you are happy, it's that you are not unhappy. With iPhoto, I am constantly astonished. When I hit the ESC key, I usually say to myself "Whoa, what was that?". Tab? Surprised. Right-click? Surprised by what is not there. Multi-select images to batch-process them? Good luck.

And integration? Not with Flickr or any other non-Apple photo site. Ordering prints? From Kodak only.