Apple: Aperture and iPhoto are Dead!

Aperture and iPhoto are both being discontinued. They have been updated to run on Yosemite but will not be developed further. They will be replaced by a new app, called Photos.app in this year.

If those have older Aperture or older iPhoto libraries on their older Apple computers and have external drives with images that have ANY value to them whatsoever - you must now take the steps to externally back up those Aperture/iPhoto libraries. You must also then upgrade your systems to Apple OSX 10.10 Yosemite if you can, and then also upgrade your iPhoto libraries to version 9.6 and your Aperture libraries to version 3.6. If you do not - you will be unable to use these "legacy" Aperture and iPhoto libraries in the soon to be released OSX "Photos" software. If you jump ship now and convert your photo libraries to Adobe image processing, you may not be able to convert those same Aperture and iPhoto libraries to the new "Photos" in a few months.