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Apple Publishes Document to Help Users Tell Creator Studio Apps Apart

J___o___h___n said:
What a mess.

I have two Pages installed on my Mac. One is bright orange with a white pen, and the other is the new gradient design. I open them both 50/50 and don't see much indifference without how the apps work. I open whichever is nearest my mouse
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I've found the newer one to be faster, and you can use it without the sub
 
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This sounds like something Microsoft would have to do with its terrible user experience.

Not a good look for “premium” priced products that are now getting ads flooded into native Apple apps.
 
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J___o___h___n said:
What a mess.

I have two Pages installed on my Mac. One is bright orange with a white pen, and the other is the new gradient design. I open them both 50/50 and don't see much indifference without how the apps work. I open whichever is nearest my mouse
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the only difference is having the privilege of seeing paid templates and features you don't have access to.

Classic freemium design cue that I never thought Apple would employ, it's rather disappointing - they should have made stand alone "pro" or paid versions instead of combining them but "free" marketing that are effectively ads is too good to pass up.

The fact they need to publish documents distinguishing them is a mark of failure.
 
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I have the paid full version of FCPX and somewhere along the line of swapping to a NEO and or upgrading to OS26 Tahoe, the app updated and wanted to switch me to signup to the monthly plan stuff...
Somewhere upon startup it did say I would need to delete the app and redownload to retain previous paid license which I thought was odd...
I did move to trash then redownload and all was good and didnt ask me for subscription anymore 🥳
 
lurkkr said:
This is dumb.
Having premium shapes in Keynote behind a “Browse Content Hub” is dumb.
Trying to monetize every sliver of experience is tiring.
Trying to monetize every smidgen of creativity will backfire. Or, rather, implode.
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Came here to make this comment. This is dumb, dumb, dumb.
Nekronos said:
the only difference is having the privilege of seeing paid templates and features you don't have access to.

Classic freemium design cue that I never thought Apple would employ, it's rather disappointing - they should have made stand alone "pro" or paid versions instead of combining them but "free" marketing that are effectively ads is too good to pass up.

The fact they need to publish documents distinguishing them is a mark of failure.
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And the paid templates suck! I was on the subscription version of Pages the other day looking through Letter templates— they look like an 8th grader created them.
jml12286 said:
I have the paid full version of FCPX and somewhere along the line of swapping to a NEO and or upgrading to OS26 Tahoe, the app updated and wanted to switch me to signup to the monthly plan stuff...
Somewhere upon startup it did say I would need to delete the app and redownload to retain previous paid license which I thought was odd...
I did move to trash then redownload and all was good and didnt ask me for subscription anymore 🥳
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I’ve had the paid standalone version of FCP X for years and am terrified now that I subscribe that somewhere along the way, it will transition me to the subscriber version. 😳

The FIRST THING John Ternus needs to do is straighten this out ASAP. Combine all these apps back down to one version and make them FREE for all Apple users who buy the hardware. This is the business model and how it always was for Apple. They should not be charging a subscription for Pages, Numbers, Keynote at all. And I say this as a shareholder.
 
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jchap said:
Some users might want the older, non-Creator Studio version still installed. Apple is playing it safe in that regard.
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It's not a good experience. I get prompted to upgrade every time. But I have to manually go do it. Apple is a big and smart enough company to solve this.
 
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apple4everOG said:
Aint that the truth. No way would Steve allow two apps with the same name but different icons.

Apple has failed.
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Only Apple fans can get upset over icons in this context. As if they were the actual problem.

Sometimes I think we just don't deserve any better. If that are the priorities, why should Apple care to get better? That's why new "emoticons" or whatever are praised as "major new feature" for macOS during WWDC keynotes.
 
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Not that the most recent versions of the standalone applications' icons were particularly great considering the better versions that came before, but seeing them all compared to the subscription versions is so sad. What a fugly mess.
 
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transpo1 said:
Came here to make this comment. This is dumb, dumb, dumb.

And the paid templates suck! I was on the subscription version of Pages the other day looking through Letter templates— they look like an 8th grader created them.

I’ve had the paid standalone version of FCP X for years and am terrified now that I subscribe that somewhere along the way, it will transition me to the subscriber version. 😳

The FIRST THING John Ternus needs to do is straighten this out ASAP. Combine all these apps back down to one version and make them FREE for all Apple users who buy the hardware. This is the business model and how it always was for Apple. They should not be charging a subscription for Pages, Numbers, Keynote at all. And I say this as a shareholder.
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Exactly. As a shareholder I hate this. Shareholders will never see a cent of any extra money that comes from this. Quite the opposite, if anything this will hurt the stock price as people see Apple start nickel and diming everything and worry if they need money or something.
 
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transpo1 said:
They should not be charging a subscription for Pages, Numbers, Keynote at all. And I say this as a shareholder.
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Preach!

Couldn't agree more.
It's really honestly disturbing to see even those great ecosystem basics apps be pushed into the penny pinching machine.

I mean -- jesus.
We don't need to monetize every frickin' millimeter of every corner of every OS and device.
 
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turbineseaplane said:
Preach!

Couldn't agree more.
It's really honestly disturbing to see even those great ecosystem basics apps be pushed into the penny pinching machine.

I mean -- jesus.
We don't need to monetize every frickin' millimeter of every corner of every OS and device.
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Well, I wouldn't mind if they went back to charging for pay-in-full releases like iLife/iWork/old Mac OS X.
 
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