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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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment "Principle of least astonishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"): 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.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe_moore/2255017763/" title="iPhoto sucks by joe.moore, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/2255017763_0c77392996_o.png" width="396" height="243" alt="iPhoto sucks" /></a>
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