There's a lot of improvements they need to make to the Mac App Store that the iOS App Store has had for a while.
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Apple Releases $200 Pro Apps Bundle for Education Customers
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I already use all these apps in my classes. The irony of course is that Apple announced this bundle after the semester has already begun. It's unlikely that educators would suddenly get these mid-semester. If Apple had made this offer over the summer, a lot more educators might have jumped on board immediately.
That may be if you look at hardware cost alone, but it is cheaper to own a Mac when you factor in service, support, and security.
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...-are-even-cheaper-to-run-than-it-thought.html
I still use Aperture as well - Lightroom is very powerful, but it "gets in the way" of my workflow far too much.
Having said that... this post by Derrick Story might be of interest to you and some others: You can still get Lightroom without Creative Cloud
Perhaps true for the grade school to high school level. But here in the San Francisco Bay Area, go into any university cafeteria/student union/library and the overwhelming majority are MBAs and MBPs.
Apple: "Please take our abandon-ware to run on our overpriced abandoned computers"
Potential customers: "Err.... no?"
Potential customers: "Err.... no?"
When I got my educational priced copy of Logic 9 the only difference was in the licence terms, other than some minor details regarding upgrades and reselling it was just a regular boxed copy of the software with exactly the same content as the full edition. I would imagine that this will be the same.
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They've certainly not abandoned Logic, it received a pretty hefty update just a couple of weeks ago.
Anyone who thinks Pros look at Apple's Pro software with anything but fear and disgust at the treatment they'll likely receive at the hands of Apple, is in denial!
a) I want a decent Mac to run this kind of software on.
b) Aperture and iDVD (yes, I still burn DVDs regularly).
b) Aperture and iDVD (yes, I still burn DVDs regularly).
Most of us pros don't have time to worry about what the future may or may not hold. We just get on using the software that works for us now. If Apple decides to abandon our chosen software in the future we will simply either stick with what we have or assess and move onto something different. There's absolutely no need for fear or disgust, and we're certainly not in denial.
With the money Apple have invested into acquisitions directly related to Logic over the last couple of years I'm pretty sure that it's going nowhere soon.
Is that how they are delivered or are they tied to an edu email?
My edu email is different than my iCloud email.
c'mon, i can buy fcpx or logic for the price of a decent audio/video plugin (or half a year of adobe, which i got to buy anyway), and both of them got updated regularly since release, sometimes clearly in reaction to users requests/complaints. "pro" macs have been in a sad state for years, with things getting worse, but can't complain on the software side.
Bring the editing capabilities of QuickTime Player Pro 7.7 into QuickTime Player 10.4.
I think you're remembering incorrectly. FCP never had any limitations with their educational versions.
Yeah, though the difference here is this is a discount to the educational customer only. If it was a blanket discount to everyone, then I might agree.
If only they had a proper professional Macintosh to run these 'pro' apps on.
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And given that if the school market does not improve for Apple in the next quarter or two, they will abandon it again anyway. Apple has no long term bond with any customer group, nor do they consider anyone else but Apple. They have become the 21st century Microsoft, without any loyalty to their past customers whatsoever.
Apple is a very weird position with these pro apps. This is an amazing value for what you can do with these apps. And compared to the competition, there's not much better value... now if it's the right tool for you that's another matter... but the value is amazing.
But I always have this uneasy feeling that an essential creative tool for so many people is basically a loss-leader for Apple's core business. The bitter feeling of Aperture being abandoned is still feeling reverberations today, even though there isn't much evidence that Apple wants to get out of the Video or Audio app game.
I've been using Logic for about 10 years now, I started with an education discount on Logic Express... version 7 I think. Logic is the main reason I started using Macs... and that lure has kept me on Apple laptops since... so this strategy certainly works. But back then the full Logic Studio was $1000 I think, and similar products weren't much cheaper.
This model almost feels like a reverse version of the console market... but still with the killer apps. I buy Nintendo systems to play Nintendo games... it's the only way I can. I buy Apple computer's to use Apple's software...
Of course now Apple seems to be jacking up the price of their computers... so it's all relative I guess. $1500 for your entry Pro computer is pretty steep... of course 10 years ago you were paying that price plus double for the software anyways... But Apple is missing a sweet spot of affordability it had a few years ago with the MacBook Air and the 13inch Pro.
But I always have this uneasy feeling that an essential creative tool for so many people is basically a loss-leader for Apple's core business. The bitter feeling of Aperture being abandoned is still feeling reverberations today, even though there isn't much evidence that Apple wants to get out of the Video or Audio app game.
I've been using Logic for about 10 years now, I started with an education discount on Logic Express... version 7 I think. Logic is the main reason I started using Macs... and that lure has kept me on Apple laptops since... so this strategy certainly works. But back then the full Logic Studio was $1000 I think, and similar products weren't much cheaper.
This model almost feels like a reverse version of the console market... but still with the killer apps. I buy Nintendo systems to play Nintendo games... it's the only way I can. I buy Apple computer's to use Apple's software...
Of course now Apple seems to be jacking up the price of their computers... so it's all relative I guess. $1500 for your entry Pro computer is pretty steep... of course 10 years ago you were paying that price plus double for the software anyways... But Apple is missing a sweet spot of affordability it had a few years ago with the MacBook Air and the 13inch Pro.