The computer company, Apple, has announced that their application, Aperture, will no longer be available beginning this Fall.
They will retire the program later this Summer. Aperture was popular with computer professionals, and it had many competitors. Aperture 2.0 was released in 2008, and it was utilized by computer professionals along with Adobe’s Lightroom application.
Another version of the program, Aperture 3.0, was released in 2010. It became an affordable program, available for only $79.99. The application was updated many times, and was available for use with iCloud, Facebook, and Flickr.
Apple decided to stop work on the photo editing application, though, and released a statement for its consumers. An Apple spokesperson confirmed 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."
Some computer professionals are unhappy with the news. Digital photo consultant Lloyd Chambers said that it’s “unreal” to expect that “iPhoto/ iCloud mongrel” can replace Aperture, according to Zdnet.