Apple ending development for Aperture
Apple recently announced their new operating system, Yosemite, at their recently Worldwide Developers Conference. As the conference went on, there was no mention of the ever popular photography program, Aperture. News coming today clears up why. Aperture, the “professional” photo editing software, will no longer be developed, and Apple will be transitioning users to Photos.
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Photo was announced during the Worldwide Developers Conference as well, and will also be replacing iPhoto on the new OS X Yosemite.
In talking to TechCrunch, an Apple spokesperson said, “With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture. When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X.”
Apple won’t completely get rid of Aperture, as they will continue to launch updates for the program to run on Yosemite, but they will no longer develop for the program.
Here is how photos will look on Apple’s new Yosemite operating system.
With both iPhoto and Aperture going away, Apple is making sure to help users with the transition. They will be creating update paths to help users make the transition more seamless.
With Adobe Lightroom taking many of the Aperture users away, it makes sense for Apple to continue to move on from the product. Also, with iPhoto going away on the desktop version of Apple products, it would only stand to reason that the same transition seems likely on the new iOS 8.