Apple Aperture

I received an email from Apple today titled 'Aperture News', it reads
Dear Aperture customer, 
Last June, we introduced the new Photos apps for iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, along with iCloud Photo Library, which lets you safely store all your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere. When Photos for OS X launches this spring, Aperture will no longer be available for purchase from the Mac App Store. You can continue to use Aperture on OS X Yosemite, but you will not be able to buy additional copies of the app. 
You can migrate your Aperture library to Photos for OS X, including your photos, adjustments, albums and keywords. After migrating, your Aperture library remains intact. However, Aperture and Photos do not share a unified library, so any changes made after the migration will not be shared between the apps. 
To learn more about Photos for OS X, click here. If you’re interested in trying the OS X 10.10.3 Public Beta, which includes Photos for OS X, click here. 
We thank you for using Aperture and hope you will enjoy the new Photos for OS X app. 
Sincerely, 
Apple

I've had a brief look at Photos for OS X and it seems more set up for IPhone users, which is not to be demeaning, but Photos for OS X's present editing ability is not comparable to Aperture's RAW editing capability. Unless there's some more features added or the possibility of apps that can be added,  I may need to start seriously evaluating other RAW conversion/file management options, deep sigh.

A RAW image opened in Apple Aperture

The fact that a hugely profitable enterprise such as Apple has ceased development of a RAW editing software, leaves an uncomfortable feeling about the health of the photography market.  I have an uncomfortable feeling, that in the future some photographers will be faced with some hard decisions about software and perhaps worryingly, what software can open legacy RAW image files and what is the long term support for that software which can open legacy RAW image files. Based on reported financial data and business statements, there is a genuine concern, that some camera manufacturers are shoring up their non or barely profitable camera divisions in the current market and in view of the forecast decline in sales/market /market share, will eventually be forced to cease manufacturing unprofitable products.