“When I first saw the small demo of the Photos app at the Worldwide Developers Conference, that’s when I knew iPhoto was going to die—and I suspected Aperture would too,” David Sparks writes for Macworld. “Last week, Apple made it official: Both iPhoto and Aperture will be retired in favor of the new Photos app.”
“There are (unsurprisingly) a lot of people upset with this news, and a few years ago, I too would have led the charge on Cupertino,” Sparks writes. “But to be honest, I’ve been feeling for a while that local-storage-based photo management needs to be overhauled; now, it appears that Apple is ready to take on that task.”
Sparks writes, “Our current state of photo management is, quite frankly, unmanageable. Every person in my family has run into this, and I spend more time nursing iPhoto and Aperture libraries on our computers and iOS devices than I do all my other computer maintenance combined. Apple, it appears, is now stepping up to deliver.”
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