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

Gustoso said:
This is honestly infuriating. I’ve been waiting for months now to buy an M5 Pro MBP. Was planning on buying this bundle as soon as I got the computer. I almost purchased the bundle earlier this week in anticipation, but decided to hold off until I had the computer in hand.

I mean, Apple got what they wanted. Now I don’t really have a choice but to do the subscription service. I am an actual educator, by the way. Not just trying to game the system.

So, here I am, still without a laptop, but I can no longer buy this bundle. Thanks a lot, Apple.
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Hey I'm really sorry but I made a mistake.

It's no longer sold SEPARATELY.

But I have good news for you:

This article has been revised to reflect that the Pro Apps Bundle for Education remains available through the Apple Education Store with the purchase of a Mac.
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cc @thejadedmonkey
 
PlayUltimate said:
I guess you don't remember when Apple was charging for OS updates.
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Right, with the Mac OS upgrades prior to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Until 2011, each new version cost $129!

As for the death of the Pro Apps For Education bundle, I'm glad I was able to purchase said bundle when I was a college student and save a lot of money that way, and they still work just fine on my Macs.
The one upside of this, it'll save my college's radio/TV studio a LOT of money, especially with the educational discount for the Creator Studio.
 
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My needs are fairly light.
Well I guess I'll keep trucking on the "older" versions.
And keep using Davinci Resolve, Reaper, Affinity photo/publisher/designer/studio. and such.
I'd likely pay the subscription if it also came with a modern version of Aperture, iWeb and DVD Studio Pro (with export options for BluRay, HTML5, etc.).
 
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neuropsychguy said:
So in other words you aren't clarifying the point of your post and not answering my questions...
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The tone of your questions felt passive aggressive and I don’t play that. This too feels like you gaslighting. As I stated, the new pro Apple app icons are thematically consistent, but are incoherent in many cases as to what each icon means, whereas the old icons are much more obvious. And no, Apple is not a religion that cannot be questioned or criticised. And yes, Apple is run by human beings capable of making terrible choices. You think it’s just a mad coincidence why many in the design community hate Apple’s recent iconography moves? Clearly not. Many of these icons are silly. They could make each icon a custom emoji in the name of consistency, but that also would be a silly thing to do. Steve would talk about surprising and delighting users. This is not that. These icons manage to be simultaneously ugly and incoherent. But they are consistent. That no one can deny.
 
The direction Apple is heading in is extremely disappointing. Apple seems to be shifting focus to quantity over quality, neglecting software standards for services revenue. I have Apple One and a lot of the services are full of bugs, like iCloud Hide My Email routinely doxxing the primary email address or Dolby Vision on Apple TV+ being completely broken on Mac in the latest update. Of course there's not recourse. Reporting bugs to Apple is futile since we still have years old bugs that remain unfixed. You either continue to pay the subscription for a broken product or end the subscription and lose access completely. Last time I checked, if you stop the subscription to Apple Music, you lose access to your saved library immediately and it gets completely deleted.
 
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After using Apple devices for 20 years, this is the first time I have started to seriously consider switching to Linux. When they (eventually) kill off the standalone apps that will destroy a lot of the appeal for me. I was happy to buy their expensive (and super good) hardware knowing that I already have a lot of great apps. Now buying Mac is not so obvious.
 
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Yes - I have never seen such ugly icons in my long long life as apple user - and now I find I cannot remove / hide / turn off all the AI buttons, reminders on the iOS numbers. We get an ugly clunky UI that makes everytng flash and pop and distort and now we get icons that look like it’s straight out of a disco in GTA Vice City - who is signing this off - who is approving the ENORMOUS curved corners - its ugly, disappointing and like a child’s toy - i mean look at he gross ‘edge’ reflections!! Those are from a Temu knock off UI - rant over
 
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Non-subscription model pricing is an unsustainable dinosaur. In a world where literally everything is connected and interconnectibility is baked into everything, and bad actors have worldwide access to this interconnected network, it is simply unreasonable to expect a developer to charge a price once for software and then spend the rest of their life unpaid to keep it functional and secure, even as fewer and fewer users use the software.

Back when a program would install once to computers that weren't network connected, the buy-once software model made sense. We're decades past that point. Software maintenance is a never-ending and expensive endeavor. People who sell the buy-once software are selling you abandonware. They simply don't expect to support it as long as you want to use it. Once new customers stop buying sufficiently, they will move on. Yes, you can still use Office 2010. But it's not safe, and not comfortable, and by this point LibreOffice would be a much better choice.

Let's say you're a student, and you sign up for the yearly bundle subscription. You're getting more apps, always the latest version, with security updates, and it will be 7 YEARS before you pay more than the up-front cost of the old bundle?! If you figure that you can stick the unspent cash savings into a 4% online savings account (far from the best investment you can make), it will take 8 years before your cost is equal. I've used 8 year old software before, and it was uncomfortable to say the least. By that time, there were far better open source or reasonably-priced commercial options available.
 
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apull said:
Non-subscription model pricing is an unsustainable dinosaur. In a world where literally everything is connected and interconnectibility is baked into everything, and bad actors have worldwide access to this interconnected network, it is simply unreasonable to expect a developer to charge a price once for software and then spend the rest of their life unpaid to keep it functional and secure, even as fewer and fewer users use the software.

Back when a program would install once to computers that weren't network connected, the buy-once software model made sense. We're decades past that point. Software maintenance is a never-ending and expensive endeavor. People who sell the buy-once software are selling you abandonware. They simply don't expect to support it as long as you want to use it. Once new customers stop buying sufficiently, they will move on. Yes, you can still use Office 2010. But it's not safe, and not comfortable, and by this point LibreOffice would be a much better choice.

Let's say you're a student, and you sign up for the yearly bundle subscription. You're getting more apps, always the latest version, with security updates, and it will be 7 YEARS before you pay more than the up-front cost of the old bundle?! If you figure that you can stick the unspent cash savings into a 4% online savings account (far from the best investment you can make), it will take 8 years before your cost is equal. I've used 8 year old software before, and it was uncomfortable to say the least. By that time, there were far better open source or reasonably-priced commercial options available.
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Upgrade fees is usually what devs would do to keep money coming in. If the dev's updates were worth it, you'd pay for it. I refuse to pay for access to something that doesn't get updates for months or even years. How tf does that even make sense?
 
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One thing I discovered this AM is that, currently, the education bundle is only available to college students and college educators. Primary and Secondary teachers are excluded from taking advantage of education pricing. As a high school teacher, I don't need the professional apps. . . But, I do use Keynote every day and use Pages often. The fact that I have to pay $12.99/mo to upgrade those two apps is ridiculous. (And yes, the new Keynote, excluding AI, has a few differences from the previous version. )
 
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