Those are some pretty nasty judgments of other people who just happen to not live their lives the way you think they ought to.
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Apple Announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad With Subscription Models
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I think the broken workflows they introduced themselves are less upsetting than learning entirely new products, but I agree with the rest 👍🏽
The slow apocalypse into a fully dystopian capitalist society continues…
You're comparing $300 (actual) pro desktop software to what? An iPad app that is missing many pro features? LOL. The iPad app should have been free for all desktop version owners. $29/yr max. It's missing way too many pro features. Features that other iPad software like LumaFusion have out of the box... and it cost $30 for life. Once Apple adds the missing features then they could raise the price to $50/yr - but not until then.
Yeah. I don't know what value the iPad app in its current form has for any business. It's trash.
Says the judgmental hypocrite accusing someone else of being judgmental, under cover of a pathetic strawman.
Not sure if that's correct or if stock prices are an indicator of usage. I think Adobe started the subscription model 2011-2012 which is where you would think it would start dropping, but it actually started going up continuously since the start of the subscription model. Adobe stock peaked during COVID and fell after COVID (lots of tech sales spiked during COVID then fell afterwards). Currently it's on a rough upward trend again. I don't think their falling stock has anything to do with disgruntled customers rather a return towards the norm after COVID. Their stock is still higher than before COVID.
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Wow, bro. Now you’re doing the whole “I know you are but what am I” routine, AND escalating.
Which products are you thinking of or are you being sarcastic? Off the top of my head I can't think of an app that existed on the Mac and iOS that was then discontinued on the Mac. I'm not disagreeing, I'm genuinely curious.
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Trust me, I'd rather subscription business models fail, unless of course I was on the benefitting end of it.
. The reality of the situation is some people are ok with subscriptions and some aren't, depending on their perspective/ needs. Everyone is different so they're not going to all agree.My personal perspective is I personally feel that the subscription model benefits developers more in the end. That being said, I feel that they should offer a low-cost subscription, and a perpetual license for a higher price with 1 year free updates. This way they can keep both camps (generally) happy.
Overall, I don't think we can completely pass judgement on iPadOS FCP/LPX because it hasn't been released yet. It's almost like saying you hate a food without trying it first.
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‘We collectively can't organise that level of united militancy.’
You’re right! That’s it, man, game over! We’re just powerless consumers!
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
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Well, kinda. Jobs was selling something. The history of the iPad was tied to the development of the iPhone (and iOS). Steve was mostly interested in one thing: the finger. Steve spoke endlessly about the simplicity and the naturalness of using one’s finger to point. How nobody liked using a stylus. Steve was giving us the finger. As it turns out, in more than one way.
Steve Jobs often said things with double meaning. At one event he simply explained Apple’s simple strategy. “Apple on your desktop. Apple in your pocket.’ Apple is certainly in everyone’s pocket now.
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I think “pro” normally implies professional product that people use to make money out of. It’s essentially B2B software really and you buy it based on what you can make from it.
I think historically hobbyists (people that don’t make money from things) tend to want similar quality to people who need the best equipment to make money. And there’s where it all gets a bit weird. The “prosumer” category. Prosumers are far more price sensitive than actual pro users because for pro users value is easy to determine. For prosumers it’s more about a feeling than money.
That's just one mocha-grande-latte-lickmearese-douchevanilla-screenwriter a month. Should be no issue.
NI are a nightmare with updates, I love them to bits and own all their gear, but they're perpetually a year or more behind with support and updates for macOS. But this can often be said about most of the music industry too - which is why most musicians are often many years behind on macOS updates (and times can't update at all due to some legacy hardware).
The entry level needs to be very simple to get AU's running in Logic Pro on iPad - so simple that you should be able to copy them over from the Mac and just have them work - it should support the exact same AU standard without the need to install apps from the App Store.
It shouldn't need time though - they should have made it support the same AU's that feature in macOS, you should just be able to drag them over to the iPad.
Adobe is de dominant player in the sector. FCP is in a different position. Surely you know that.
When you are the underdog, you have to be competitive.
Anyway, all this is academic, I very much doubt apple will move pro software to subscription.
I assumed that they released major updates to the software yearly, and charged a single purchase for each new major release, like a lot of other software does. I didn’t realize that they’ve been on the same major version “Final Cut Pro Version X” for several years. If they go back to releasing a new major version every year, then I would expect they will probably start charging single purchase for those. Like Final Cut Pro Version 11 will likely be another single purchase, Version 12, etc. Or they’ll move to a subscription system like with the iPad versions. But either way you cut it, if you wanted to have up-to-date software every year, and they charge for each new major version every year, like Version 11, Version 12, etc. then you’d have to use 1 version at $300 for over 6 years before you’d be saving any money over going with the subscription pricing for the iPad apps. Software Devs need to be paid for their work, and $50 a year is not unreasonable at all. I really wish an app like Shapr 3D would provide a basic subscription option at this price point, because I would likely buy it then.