
We want our devices, our libraries, our experience integrated and seamless. Today we want to shoot, share immediately with a cool effect, edit on an iPad, sit down at your 4k display and get serious, pick up the iPad and show off what you’ve done, mix, repeat. But that’s not the world we live in anymore.

Aperture is a photo editing and management tool written for users used to an old school workflow. The cloud, the iPhone, and pocket sized digital cameras that surpass the quality of film not only didn’t exist, but were barely a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ or any technologist’s eye. And of course it started being written well before that, so we are talking about 10+ year old code. Aperture itself has been around since 2005 nearly a decade.

Joseph Linaschke, who runs ApertureExpert, has a great take on Apple’s decision to discontinue Aperture and focus on a single Photos app:īefore we can look to the future, let’s look at the past.
