Shortly after the first beta of OS X 10.10.3 targeting developers last week, which integrated the now famous Photos application to replace the maligned iPhoto, now we can also confirm that Apple on the official Aperture website, has added a notice indicating that said application will be removed from the Mac App Store when Photos is available in the final version of OS X 10.10.3 in the middle of the year.
For obvious reasons, this same notice can also be found in the application description itself within the App Store for information purposes, before someone can start buying it without knowing this detail beforehand. On the other hand, new users who want to acquire Aperture will not be able to do so once Photos is already integrated into the system, although all those who have previously acquired it may proceed to download it (if they need it) from the tab. Purchases within the App Store itself.
This announcement of the abandonment of Aperture by Apple is not new, already in mid-June we saw how Apple said set aside Aperture support in favor of the development of a more complete iPhoto application. At the time, the time when this would happen and when it would be completely removed from the Mac App Store was not specified.
For now the opinions regarding the new Photos app are found, on the one hand we have an average user profile that has seen how the application itself has improved ostensibly, being able to carry out more retouching in the photograph itself and with a much improved album sorting system, on the other hand the pro user done more in missing certain parameters that previously had available in Aperture and that now are not as the option of add third-party plug-ins, we could say without a doubt that Photos is halfway between iPhoto and Aperture.
Still everything is in a very early beta phase and we will have to wait until mid-spring to see if the application has definitely evolved enough to consider it a true Aperture replacement, since otherwise I see many users migrating their jobs directly to Lightroom.