Apple Announces The End Of Aperture And iPhoto For Mac

Apple
is ceasing Mac development of Aperture and iPhoto. The recently
introduced Photos for OS X will serve as a replacement, according to 9to5Mac.


Cupertino notes:

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.

In another report, TechCrunch says that Apple will offer an OS X Yosemite update for Aperture, but otherwise development has ended.


Apple has not announced what happens to iPhoto for iOS once the Mac
version is retired. As 9to5Mac concludes, “its outlook doesn’t seem
good.”


Development on Apple’s Logic and Final Cut Pro will continue as normal.


First announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) earlier
this month, Photos is a new application coming with iOS 8 this fall and
OS X Yosemite in early 2015. With Photos, videos and photos are now
stored in a new iCloud Photo Library. These files are accessible across
multiple devices. Under the current system, Photo Stream, shared photos
must be stored on each device.