After nearly 10 years on the market, Apple is preparing to retire its professional photo editing and management app, Aperture. Reports today indicate that the company will cease feature updates for the software and instead migrate users to the upcoming Photos for OS X app. Makers of competing software, such as Adobe, jumped at the news in an attempt to lure customers to apps like Lightroom.
You know the story: On your way out the door in the morning you decide to quickly sync a few extra songs or podcasts to your iPhone. You plug it in to your Mac expecting the process to take just a few seconds. But what’s this? Why is iPhoto opening? Ah, it’s trying to load all my iPhone’s pictures! Now I’ve got apps opening on my Mac, images loading, metadata downloading. Yuck. Don’t let this happen to you. Whether you…