“When most companies kill off a neglected product, the damage is usually limited to the few remaining customers that have stuck by it,” Jeff Carlson writes for Macworld. “In the case of Apple retiring iPhoto and Aperture, however, the disruption is much more broad: As iPhoto has been the included image management application on the Mac for years, it’s actively used by millions of customers. And although Aperture never made as many inroads into the professional community as Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom, it was still the Apple-supplied pro option.”
Carlson writes, “Both programs are being replaced by Apple’s upcoming Photos for OS X application, which at this point is still a mystery: Will it incorporate the advanced features of Aperture, will it be a stripped-down limited clone of the Photos app under iOS 8, or will it be something in-between?”
“No matter what’s to come,” Carlson writes, “you can start to take steps now to prepare for your transition—whether that means switching to Photos or migrating to another third-party photo application.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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