It’s frustrating oh well we already had this funeral. Why bother. Software like this should be priority but 2019 is about news and atv plus which doesn’t bode well.
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Apple Says Aperture Won't Run in Future macOS Versions After Mojave
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One of many reasons that my main computer is no longer a Mac
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Lots of pros used aperture
I bet this is just Apple being Apple. I can’t think of a reason why they’d drop support other than to move people to Photos and paying money for iCloud.
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I moved to lightroom which has a terrible interface/charging model, then moved to luminar.
Release Aperature's source code. Make it open source. Let other people work on, develop, and update it if Apple won't.
Such ********. Why do they support final cut but not aperture? Really really annoying
If those are their biggest mistakes, they're doing a lot of things right.
Aperture is too courageous, paint should be ported to Apple as marzipan project.
What do I do now? Move to crappy Photos or buy a Mac mini and keep it running on Mojave?
This stinks.
This stinks.
I hope macrumors devotes some time to comparing potential replacements to Aperture. We’ve been using it, happily, for years but also knew this day would come.
Thats lame! That was great software. I know a lot of people uses Lightroom but for me Aperture is go to software. I don't understand that decision. They Do News and TV for billions but can't continue Aperture development? Im greatly disappointed.
No professional photographer uses photos on the Mac we need a apple optimised program ill never forgive apple for stopping it
Nothing really. There were much bigger photo editing apps before and after Aperture. People just don’t like their legacy apps going away. They complained about the loss of iWeb and iDVD (both of which could not keep up with the competition), now they’ll complain about this.
Photos is the replacement now. Its features can easily be expanded by third party apps and extensions so I suspect by now these apps have more functionality than Aperture ever did.
I remember when photos was touted in the keynote as being able to replace much of aperture (uh, no). Asset management is terrible in photos, and the photo editing isn't even close. I made the painful switch to Lightroom a few years back, and it certainly works, it's just not even close to being as fast at editing an event's photos. The least they could have done is port most of the better features from Aperture to Photos to give it more serious editing. And Photo's whole moments thing vs. photos, drives me insane. I also really liked aperture's ability to archive things into vaults.
Emphasis on past tense.
I'm sure there are a few out there who haven't seen any reason to move on, but it is not the best available by a longshot. The only thing that truly separates Aperture from Photos is Aperture's digital asset management engine. Otherwise, Photos has surpassed Aperture in most other meaningful ways.
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I seriously considered just moving to Photos and had to abandon that plan for this reason. I gave a combo of Photo Mechanic plus other editor programs a shot for a trial run before ultimately settling down on just Capture One Pro alone.
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Capture One Pro is the program Aperture would have been if it kept being developed. Look into it. It even has a conversion tool that will port your Aperture libraries into Capture One Pro and it works pretty well.
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Because Aperture has dozens of credible competitors. It's a waste of their resources to keep pushing into a very crowded space that has no strategic importance to them.
It has been a long slide from real Mac Pros and Aperture to ghetto headphones and cute emojis. I can't wait for Tim to retire or whatever.
The lesson I learned from this is that if there is a good alternative to apple software, go with that instead. Apple has shown it is more than happy to abandon software when it gets bored of it.
Apple and Nikon killed my love of taking pictures. Lightroom is NOT a solution. Capture One and DXO are very good but Aperture was the very best. iPhoto and Capture NX, both free but both useless. Apple doesn't make me dream anymore.
I agree mainly with the magsafe. I still have an older mac with the magsafe connector, and the number of times it saved my computer from flying against something, is impressive. This adds up if you have kids, animals or both. The likelihood that something will trip on the cord by accident is absurdly high.
