Apple to Retire Aperture Photo Service This Fall

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When OS X Yosemite ships this fall, Apple will stop development of Aperture, its photo editing program aimed and professionals and advanced users.

Instead, the company will work with users to transition to Photos, an application previewed at WWDC 2014.

See also: With OS X Yosemite, the Mac Comes of Age

The news of Aperture's imminent demise first appeared on Tech Crunch . An Apple spokesperson confirmed the development to Mashable:

"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." Read more...

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