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Apple's $200 'Pro Apps' Bundle With Final Cut Pro and More No Longer Sold Separately

HappyDude20 said:
So glad I bought the education bundle years ago when I was a student….

…but it’s only a matter of time until they’re no longer updated and supported. I’d say give it a year or two left.
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It’s just the regular version of the apps right? Didn’t they mention they’ll continue to update the regular apps?
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
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Come on they aren’t so bad ..
Who wouldn’t know that the Logic Pro iCon isn’t a Platinum Record right? I mean it does not look like a bad designed button or something else.

And what about the Compressor icon, who wouldn’t know what the program does looking at that beautiful badge from Final Fantasy right?

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Just to mention a few… 😀
 

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I anticipated its discontinuation when I read that Apple Creator Studio would have an education tier. Someone else commented that it's still available as pre-installed option when configuring a Mac. I don't if that will go away. Hopefully, it doesn't. Apple sometimes hides "more complex product options" within deeper menus.
 
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Kidseeghost said:
Enshttification. You will own nothing and you will be happy. They are going the Adobe way. Instead of letting the user do a one time purchase and letting them decide later if they want to purchase the new version they make the user pay a monthly fee. If you become a professional and need this tools you will have to send money to the companies basically forever. What Apple is going to do next after locking everyone in is going to be price increases. They have plenty of room for a price increase since their competitor Adobe is expensive.
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What's the relation with enshttification? I hate enshttification, but it has nothing to do with subscriptions.
 
Kidseeghost said:
Enshttification. You will own nothing and you will be happy. They are going the Adobe way. Instead of letting the user do a one time purchase and letting them decide later if they want to purchase the new version they make the user pay a monthly fee. If you become a professional and need this tools you will have to send money to the companies basically forever. What Apple is going to do next after locking everyone in is going to be price increases. They have plenty of room for a price increase since their competitor Adobe is expensive.
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I guess it’s time to donate Blender Foundation another $100 this year.

I wish there were a nicer alternative for some creative tools. I know there are some but it’s quite hard to get used to dark table, gimp, Natron .. Libreoffice … soon I won’t have a choice.

Others are amazing thou, like Krita, Blender .. Natron looks nice but last time I tested was crashing in macOS just demoing the program so who would use that for production (impossible).
 
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I’m honestly surprised it lasted this long - I’m glad I got it when I bought my Mac mini last year. I don’t use either currently but I always figured I might someday and it’s better to have it and not need it, as they say…
 
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n-evo said:
The Pixelmator Pro one is especially terrible. The second Apple took them over feature updates immediately dried up. I knew in my gut that was a really bad sign of things to come. My gut feeling didn’t disappoint.
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Apple had the Pixelmator team put their efforts into working on the iPadOS version post-acquisition. Can't say I blame them. They need a larger suite of creative apps on iPad before users can embrace iPad in that way. I suspect now that the iPad version is out we've seen dual-development of both platforms.

I still say Apple is missing a Pro drag-and-drop raw design app for logos, icons, and general design work. iWeb back in the day had such a handy drag-and-drop design UX. There's huge opportunity to make a more pro version of something like that now. I still keep an old Mac around to mess about with iWeb. Would love a modern incarnation with all-modern features and rich assets, gradients, textures, shapes, masks, background removal, subject selection, and more. I don't believe such an app done really well has ever existed. Huge potential.

AI magic features would be the icing on the cake—verbal command inputs: "remove the background leaving just the man and the fish" ... "give me a seven pointed star with a blue gradient 200 pixels across" ... and then you've be able to maniple these manually in the GUI with your cursor and so forth. You'd be able to create shapes from verbal commands that aren't quiet in the library of assets, and potentially make complicated adjustments using simple voice commands, with the usual inputs (pencil via iPad, mouse and keyboard) at the ready for when you need them.
 
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Damn, should have gotten it while I had the chance, I had a feeling it was going away with this new subscription model. Literally almost bought it last week but just couldn’t justify it to myself since I figured I’d only use Logic. Damn.

Edit: got an M4 Mini and it let me add the bundle, fingers crossed that it works. Glad I’m enrolled at a university ha
 
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sleeptodream said:
Damn, should have gotten it while I had the chance, I had a feeling it was going away with this new subscription model. Literally almost bought it last week but just couldn’t justify it to myself since I figured I’d only use Logic. Damn.
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You probably don't use all the apps. You can still buy them individually.
 
We purchased this SKU in the past. Time to add this to my list to ask my Apple rep next week.
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
I still say Apple is missing a Pro drag-and-drop raw design app for logos, icons, and general design work. iWeb back in the day had such a handy drag-and-drop design UX. There's huge opportunity to make a more pro version of something like that now. I still keep an old Mac around to mess about with iWeb. Would love a modern incarnation with all-modern features and rich assets, gradients, textures, shapes, masks, background removal, subject selection, and more. I don't believe such an app done really well has ever existed. Huge potential.
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Maybe check out Blocs App for Mac. This with Pixelmator Pro was a game changer for me.
blocsapp.com

Blocs - The Ultimate Website Builder for Mac and iPad

Blocs is fast, intuitive and powerful visual web design software, that lets you create responsive websites and Wordpress themes without writing code.
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TMRJIJ said:
Maybe check out Blocs App for Mac
blocsapp.com

Blocs - The Ultimate Website Builder for Mac and iPad

Blocs is fast, intuitive and powerful visual web design software, that lets you create responsive websites and Wordpress themes without writing code.
blocsapp.com blocsapp.com
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Look like a nice tool, but with the way things are going these days, I always look for links to opensource options. That way it can be forked and developed independently as well.

FOSS and other options are growing in the creative space, which cannot be a bad thing!
 
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I guess I'm the only one who likes the creator suite. I think the icons are kinda cool looking, thought I also liked the old ones. I am happy that Apple is building more AI into its professional software and taking it seriously. My only complaint is that you cannot do IAP through Apple Business Manager so I cannot issue subscription licenses as part of a company. I totally get why iWork was included the AI stuff (especially in Keynote) is super cool. My hope is that this spurs Apple to give more resources to the creative team and that they can build cooler stuff. APPLE PLEASE INCLUDE PIXELMATOR PHOTO IN THE SUBSCRIPTION!
 
neuropsychguy said:
Are you showing that students and educators only got 5 applications for $200 but now they get 10 (some are free but the subscription unlocks additional features) for $30 per year?

Or there is now a more coherent icon design language across applications?
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You can remove those question marks because none of those are questions that seek answers. They new icons are consistent, but incoherent.
 
TMRJIJ said:
Maybe check out Blocs App for Mac. This with Pixelmator Pro was a game changer for me.
blocsapp.com

Blocs - The Ultimate Website Builder for Mac and iPad

Blocs is fast, intuitive and powerful visual web design software, that lets you create responsive websites and Wordpress themes without writing code.
blocsapp.com blocsapp.com
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I don't want to create a website though. I want a design canvas that maybe has custom website creation as one of its many "New project" features, including app icon design, company logo design, application and image mockups, and general creative work aside of web design. A fully drag-and-drop design app for design, period. I didn't use iWeb for making websites, I used its drag-and-drop canvas environment to create visually. Believe it or not it was quite powerful for such a simple set of tools. Look at what people can create with MS Paint and how limited that was. Apple could resurrect this idea and make a real design app out of it.
 
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