Apple Publishes Document to Help Users Tell Creator Studio Apps Apart

[jeremz1ne]

How Often do they release updates for these programs?

 

[Macbookey]

Love it or hate it, the Forstall era Skeuomorphic design gave charm and character as well as a better UI than this post Ives soulless monolith. Software division needs a massive reorganization and change in philosophy, if not going back in time to fix the present and future. Hope Ternus is as keen on software and hardware consistency that  was once famous for. What a failure to have to publish a manual for your icons.

 

[tennisproha]

You know it's always been a great plan when you need to release a document to help users understand the difference.

And they even failed at that. It's a useless document because it just lists the difference in logos, not what's actually different between the versions.

 

[svish]

Good to know about this. I like the liquid glass version however not happy having a subscription service.

 

[Akzel]

I’ve been using Keynote for many years and it never felt so bad and anti-Apple. I get an ad for the subscription every time I open the app and inside there are many (most?) themes locked behind a subscription. It looks desperate and really bad.

 

[H_D]

I switched to the subscription with a new MBP and haven’t noticed any improvement at all, templates and stock art or bad AI image creation is nor for me… but Final Cut had massive problems with some MotionVFX plugins (e.g. FilmEmulation) as the Custom LUT folder seems to have changed.

And Logic or FCX on iPad will only make sense when plugins are supported.

 

[ds2000]

Poor Steve, rolling in his grave.

What a powerful testament to the collapse of Apple's ability to lead user experience.

My take as well, paraphrasing but "when the product lineup becomes a confusing mess...."

 

[apple4everOG]

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.

Yes that's right. We are Apple fans because we care about the small details - they matter. And yes it is an actual problem. When you can't tell icons apart it makes it harder to find the app you want. It puts a mental load on people. It adds up.

It's a priority because it shows how Apple needs to get better.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Well, I wouldn't mind if they went back to charging for pay-in-full releases like iLife/iWork/old Mac OS X.

Yeah, that’s different and I agree with you.

Think how much harder they’d try on macOS fit and finish if they needed to earn a purchase!!?

 

[AppliedMicro]

I have solved this by not having the subscription versions of the Apps installed at all.

How did you solve that on iOS or iPadOS though? Because…

you can't use shared documents in icloud anymore with the old app, so to continue using them, you have to update to the creator studio version, with that annoying, non removable advertising of functions I neither need nor want.

By the way, I inadvertently updated the apps on my iPad. And “of course”…




…it’s “signing me up” to share analytics data with Apple by default.
Small, grey fine print on grey background.

“Privacy. That’s Apple”, my ass!

 

[AppliedMicro]

PS:



Oh, they’re telling me, they’ll be collecting “content in Pages you view or interact with” as analytics data.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

I have solved this by not having the subscription versions of the Apps installed at all.

I solved this by not using Apple's "work" suite at all.

 

[platinumaqua]

How did you solve that on iOS or iPadOS though? Because…

By the way, I inadvertently updated the apps on my iPad. And “of course”…

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…it’s “signing me up” to share analytics data with Apple by default.
Small, grey fine print on grey background.

“Privacy. That’s Apple”, my ass!

I've installed pi-hole years ago and noticed how chatty Apple is for analytics despite me turning off everything that could be turned off.

 

[turbineseaplane]

How did you solve that on iOS or iPadOS though? Because…

Oh. I haven’t, sorry.

I only use Numbers and Pages occasionally on macOS