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Apple Announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad With Subscription Models

TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ said:
I’m not a big fan of the subscription model. We are already paying a high premium price for Apple products. Ughhhh!
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Me either @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ more greed on part of Apple like most tech companies. Sorta back to the future also. Early days of computing you just rented and never owned software and had to pay upgrade fees (subscriptions) or software would not work. Now software you buy one time has all kinds of legalize that say you don‘t own this software more or less anyway. Services and subscriptions are the big ticket now for apple after you make your investment in new expensive hardware.
 
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Dayum, not a fan of subscriptions. Just why, why do they have to do this? At least give us a choice between lifetime and timed plans. I’d be willing to pay €400 for this.
Thing is they don’t have to do this. They don’t live by the FCP sales. They develop the OS and HW for it! The income from FCP will be negligible.
Pure Apple greed.
 
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BeatCrazy said:
It's a sophisticated app, not a wallpaper. If the choice is a one-time purchase that only gets updated once/year or rarely gets new features added, I'd prefer the subscription with regular updates.

Devs don't work for free.
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Well if FCP is all you do in your workflow.. its probably cost effective, but for everyone else there are probably better alternatives.
 
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RealJerzy said:
Hopefully, they never change the desktop versions to the subscription model. That's 100% a deal-breaker to me.
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Seems likely. This is probably Apple testing the waters for their "full fat" desktop programs. If it's a success then they might go ahead with making macOS a subscription based OS.

It's nice that Apple is releasing their OS for free but they will want to make more money so either they'll start charging a sub or they'll do what Microsoft is doing and start stuffing it with ads. Actually, if they copy Microsoft they'll charge you for the OS and stuff ads in anyway. While I don't think anyone in their right mind pays full price for Windows you still really need to pay for it some way or another.
 
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Glad to see Apple finally putting some of their heavy pro apps on the iPad, but the subscription approach has me a bit worried, if a success, will they remove the charm of Apple Licensens on their desktop variants. Also, we already have lots of subscription both on business and the private front, so the market is quite saturated.

I though wish Apple would have provided both option, subscription for the ones wanting to try or use periodic times, and a "lifetime" like license as they currently have on the desktop app store, for the power users, willing to pay the price.
 
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So no occasional use? Or can you subcribe for just a month? Will it be as easy to cancel an apple thingy subscription as it is for a 3rd party?
 
floral said:
Whoaaaaa!!!! That's so cool! Now I can... wait, I don't even make music. But this could be useful for photo editing.
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I hope you're not trying to use Logic or Final cut for photo editing....
 
krspkbl said:
I hope you're not trying to use Logic or Final cut for photo editing....
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Oops. Sorry, meant video. Though, LumaFusion would probably be better since it's a onetime purchase and has a similar set of features I've heard...
 
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My only issue with subscriptions is how the subscription/activation is handled. I've been burned a few times by purchasing software that ends up not being able to start up in airplane mode, or having to "re-authenticate" at the worst possible moment, or simply hanging or crashing without any info whatsoever.

I just had that issue last year, with a MacOS app where I bought a license and when it couldn't activate through the company proxy server the support informed me that there is no alternative activation option because they actually outsourced that to a company and use their activation servers. I ended up having to go through the credit card issuer to get my money back.

So yeah no thanks, I exclusively use software nowadays that offers offline activation such as Ableton.

I don't care about the subscription pricing, I just don't want the risk of being at a customer's location and going, oh yeah hold on a minute, guest wifi doesn't support this app, need to get a hotspot going real quick, no 4g in this building, is there a room where windows open or can you walk me back to reception? Been there, done that.
 
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Up Next....Desktop Versions. Apple biggest growing business unit every new quarter when financial results are released is always the "Services" section which includes all the monthly subscriptions.
 
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This is HUGE news. A turning point that we'll look back upon. It seems Apple got tired of waiting for developers to treat the iPad as a "proper computer", so is stepping in to do so itself.

But here's a question: Why didn't Apple wait until WWDC to release these? Could it possibly be that WWDC is going to be themed around something else that maybe shifts the needle in a big way...?
 
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CygnusTC said:
Up Next....Desktop Versions. Apple biggest growing business unit every new quarter when financial results are released is always the "Services" section which includes all the monthly subscriptions.
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if they gonna use same 50 bucks a year sub for all platforms on given app then take my money
fcp has been single purchase for how many years now? value per buck was outstanding
 
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