Apple Confirms Aperture to Be Removed From Mac App Store After Launch of Photos for OS X

[CausticPuppy]

They should have at least reduced the price to $0 when they announced its end-of-life.

After using the Photos beta for a couple days, it's definitely an iPhoto replacement, so iPhoto users should be very happy.

It's nowhere near an Aperture replacement though. Maybe the beta is still missing some key features, but no batch editing, no rating/culling, no brushed effects, no effects presets, no curves adjustments, no RAW fine tuning. It supports RAW but it seems its more geared toward JPG editing, as in your iPhone photos.

On the plus side, it does appear like it'll be a great tool for your iOS photos.

 

[JBSlough]

I still can't believe they're charging 80 bucks for Aperture this late. Seriously, Apple?

 

[kettle]

It's just incredible that Apple is going to be giving away the world's most advanced photo application. I hope nobody complains.

Apple have spent a LOT of time and money on the sarcasm emoticon - now would be a good time to use it

 

[SteveJobs2.0]

But do they actually make money off of it? Yes the CHARGE for it, but with R&D involved, do they actually make money?

If I was in charge of such a rich company I would keep a small team of 5-10 people around to keep supporting Aperture until Photos improves enough to capture even more of the advanced users' needs.

 

[CausticPuppy]

UGGHH.. well at least I'll still be able to re-download my copy. I'd still recommend any pro not happy with lightroom to buy it even thou its EDL'd.

Aperture is F'ng awesome pro tool. WTF

At this point I'd wait for Lightroom 6 which is right around the corner. I converted to Lightroom last year, and I've grown to like it except for the performance which really lags behind Aperture. LR6 is supposed to be better optimized for modern hardware.

 

[Four oF NINE]

How long?

How long will Aperture continue to work? Do we have any idea about that?

 

[etoiles]

Main potential issues/questions:

• Bugs - Aperture is solid. Based on Apple's recent releases, I am not overly optimistic that Photos will be the same.
• Features - Photos looks barebones to say the least, how long until it catches up to Aperture... if ever (see the 'simplification' of Numbers etc.)?
• Extensions - will developers even bother to port them to Photos, or just focus on Lightroom instead?
• iCloud - Photos seems to be mainly about 'your photos on all your devices'. What if I have multiple TB of pictures, neatly organized in separate libraries? This could get messy...

 

[Boston007]

its a shame that apple are chasing the money and scrapping off pro applications

Gotta satisfy the stupid masses.
All about lowest common denominator.

 

[2457282]

its a shame that apple are chasing the money and scrapping off pro applications

How is Apple chasing the money when they give it away for free?

I have not gotten access to Photos so I cannot say anything, but according to all coments and even in this article it seems like the new app clearly beats iPhotos (which I use and has become dog slow). I understand that it is losing all the Apperature capabilities and that indeed sucks as I use that too. I don't edit as much as i used to, but I o hope that they are able to either put in those feature before final release or a least open up some API for others to do so.

 

[Blue Fox]

.....I hope nobody complains.

It's MacRumors.........there is no "hope" for this.

 

[quackers82]

I don't really do anything with photos, so can somebody who does tell me what Aperture has the Photos will not? Its not a subject I'm very knowledgable in.

 

[alexanderasher]

As a semi-professional photographer, I have never touched Aperture and now never will. I can't imagine it beats out Photoshop, Lightroom, etc. when it's barely talked about.

 

[dannyyankou]

Some people are reacting as if Apple is going to delete it from everyone's computer, lol.

 

[rotlex]

May be a dumb question, but what does this mean for those of us who will keep using it, and possibly upgrading to a new machine in say 6 months. If they remove it form the app store, how do we get the latest version. I have a boxed copy of 2.0 I think, but I've since moved on to updating through the app store.

 

[mic j]

How is Apple chasing the money when they give it away for free?

By selling iCloud storage. Steady stream of income.

 

[J. Jizzle]

Excellent. Now replace iTunes with something that works.

What about iTunes doesn't work? It has always worked fine for me

 

[etoiles]

Some people are reacting as if Apple is going to delete it from everyone's computer, lol.

Yosemite required an Aperture update... how long will it realistically continue to run if OS X is kept up to date?

 

[RJCP]

This doesn't make any sense. Photos is a good replacement for iPhoto but it's not a Pro Tool. I can't imagine photographers being able to do advance photo editing on Photos.

 

[mic j]

May be a dumb question, but what does this mean for those of us who will keep using it, and possibly upgrading to a new machine in say 6 months. If they remove it form the app store, how do we get the latest version. I have a boxed copy of 2.0 I think, but I've since moved on to updating through the app store.

As the article states, it will continue to be available through your "Purchases" page in the App Store.

 

[kettle]

How is Apple chasing the money when they give it away for free?

This is like a 'loss leader'

look how free and simple iPhone apps popularised the myth that 'anyone' can produce professional 'looking' images. (just buy an iPhone)

Instagram bubbled to 1 billion.

now all these heavily filtered selfless need to be organised - using a similar lack of ability.

 

[rotlex]

As the article states, it will continue to be available through your "Purchases" page in the App Store.

Doh, actually read it and didn't even notice that.

Thanks!

 

[Zerozal]

I don't really do anything with photos, so can somebody who does tell me what Aperture has the Photos will not? Its not a subject I'm very knowledgable in.

From David Pogue's review here:
And these Aperture features (among others) are missing:
Flags, star ratings, color labels
Projects
Merge/split libraries
Split view
Loupe
Camera tethering
Stacks
Brushable adjustments
Adjustment resets
Curves
Metadata batch adjustments

I don't use Aperture (I've been a Lightroom user from day 1), but I can tell you that the lack of flags, star ratings, color labels, stacks, brushable adjustments, and curves (all things that Lightroom also has) are a big loss, and will upset a lot of photographers. It's possible, likely even, that Apple will add a lot of that stuff back in as Photos matures, much as they did with Final Cut Pro X as it evolved over various releases.

 

[kettle]

Yosemite required an Aperture update... how long will it realistically continue to run if OS X is kept up to date?

not long

Downgrade your current hardware to an optimal version of OSX - a 10.8 for example - then download the older version of aperture while they'll still let you.

 

[mic j]

This doesn't make any sense. Photos is a good replacement for iPhoto but it's not a Pro Tool. I can't imagine photographers being able to do advance photo editing on Photos.

I don't think Apple's aim is to keep pro's. That's why they are helping people transfer from Aperture to Lightroom, if that's what they wish to do. It's a business decision to put your resources into the 99% not the 1%.

Not saying I am happy about it, but I think you can see where the company is going with this (iWorks, FCP, Aperture, etc). Software has always been a way for them to sell hardware (where the real margin is) and not the company's true focus.

 

[maflynn]

The only surprising thing with this announcement is that apple actually made the announcement. They usually don't communicate future plans.

With that said, I am truly saddened by this, Aperture was an excellent product that beat Lightroom out the door when it was initially released. Apple could have done so much with this app and really cornered the market with photographers but they dropped the ball and let the app just whither on the vine.