When Apple killed development of iPhoto and Aperture last summer, it promised a replacement that would blend the best of the two apps into one solution: Photos for Mac.
Originally promised to arrive in “early 2015,” Photos for Mac is available for the first time in a new developer-only beta of OS X Yosemite. Unfortunately, everyone else will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on it.
The first beta of OS X 10.10.3 is available for developers now with Photos for Mac, and Apple has pushed back the app’s public release.
Development of the all-in-one iPhoto successor has obviously not gone as quickly as Apple intended. The iCloud Photo Library beta FAQ was recently updated to say the app was coming at a “later date” instead of “early 2015.” Now Apple’s Photos for Mac preview page says it’s coming this spring.
According to David Pogue, there will be a public beta of Photos in a few weeks. So stay tuned for that.
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4 responses to “Apple delays Photos for Mac release until spring”
Later date? Lame. Course my photo library has grown so big since entering Apple’s ecosphere I’m not sure any new app / app update would make things better than the slow and buggy iPhoto.
Better to let the developers and other pioneers find the library-destroying bugs (if any).
I’m wondering if down the road Apple has plans to make a new version of iWeb, but make it more “Facebook”-like with social networking functionality without ads.
updating now. finally.