Yes it’s terrible how Steve Jobs restructured the company after his return… 😂
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Apple's Clips App Discontinued
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Apples biggest problem (apart from RAM and storage pricing) are the MILLIONS of functions nobody knows about.
I used it twice and didn’t think it had a future. To this day still haven’t downloaded invites.
I despise Office with every strand of my DNA.
But with yet another suite apparently fading away (remember AppleWorks before it), no wonder the world puts up with MS. It's like Apple approaches productivity the same way as gaming: a big new initiative and headlines, then gets left to languish.
No idea why you got a dislike, completely valid response and is entirely true. The way a company works is separation and division of labor (divide and conquer) sometimes that causes one of the divisions to not know what the other is doing.
Great post thx.
I think the approach to software is slightly incoherent as it’s split between different teams at Apple.
I believe that iWork is with Eddie cue, bizarrely enough. But maybe that’s fitting as his portfolio does seem to be a grab bag of items. It would be better if he was just in charge of revenue generating services maybe.
I suspect that they aren't one app on purpose. Some people (like me) still buy music. Apple knows they don't want the store easily accessible from the Music app, but they still want the revenue from the store. Thus, two apps. I don't see that changing soon (if it does, then I would expect them to unhide the store by default in the desktop app).
Clips was a bit odd. But the Invites app? It’s a strange thing to dedicate an entire app to making invitations. And how often would anyone actually use it? What’s the next app? Music iHate? The parsnip growing guide?
Simply fab, Apple… Clips was offloaded. I wanted to export videos but I can‘t. It leads me to the App Store to re-download but it‘s not available anymore. Well done, Apple.
It should work - the support doc says it's possible. Maybe try again in a few hours/days in case Apple messed up.
Save your Clips videos - Apple Support
The Clips app is no longer being updated, and will no longer be available to download as of October 3, 2025. You can continue to use Clips on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
They were one app back in the day. iTunes used to do everything. Then Apple bought Beats and decided to get into streaming. They took advantage of users thinking iTunes was a bloated mess and separated the store app from the music player and streaming app.
The other apps are split because of the old consumer vs pro model that Apple has operated under for years. I’m sure Final Cut and Logic users do not want the basic UIs and features of the consumer apps, and consumers don’t want to pay the prices for the pro apps.
They basically stole it anyhow.
It was the lowest effort way possible to try to add a bullet point to the iCloud "feature" list.
Ha. But I like Invites. Very useful if you have kids and a much better and less intrusive free option vs Evites and Paperless. Although, I swear it could just be integrated into Calendar vs being a standalone app. Clips had so many more competing products in the app store.