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Apple's 'Creator Studio' App Bundle Now Available for $12.99 Per Month
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The icons have such poor contrast in light mode with the colored background and the icon in the same color. I hope they either adopt a more white-on-color or color-on-white style soon...
I may be in the minority here, but I love this. Rent FCP or Logic Pro for a few weeks when I actually use it, and don't pay for it for the rest of the year when I don't. Always access to the newest versions and features.
This may not be great for everyone, but it is for me!
This may not be great for everyone, but it is for me!
Yeah, this is confusing... My Mac showed updates for Keynote, Numbers, and Pages...but they were still the old icons. So I go look in the App Store and don't see those (old) apps listed under the Apple developer page, and there are totally new apps to download. Why couldn't they just have updated the existing apps? They apparently updated the existing apps for iOS/iPadOS, but not for the Mac.
EDIT: Looks like this is a "universal" app now. Previously, it was an iOS/iPadOS app and a macOS app. Now the same app supports all three OSes. So they essentially discontinued the macOS-only version and added macOS support to the existing iOS/iPadOS app.
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I’m not the market for this. But if I were already using Final Cut or Logic, I could see this as a viable experiment.
This bundle will cost me $2,000-plus since I’m still on an Intel iMac!
I see you working Tim!
I see you working Tim!
Yeah. My M1 Pro MBP display randomly got all vertical lines through it. I need to upgrade ASAP as I need a functioning laptop. If nothing happens this week, I'll have to make a decision on what to get instead.
I'm not totally sold on the current MBP lineup, as 5 years with only spec bumps is pretty disappointing.
Boy. They should hire a creator to redo those horrible icons.
Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Freeform were all free before... this is whack
Well at least that is a reason that makes some sense.
Looks like something similar is going on for PixelMator. You can buy the $50 version of get the "free" app that requires a subscription, they are in the store separately. For those that did shell out the $50 for the perpetual license, will they be continuing to update that app at all now?
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I assume it is the same for Final Cut Pro, but I can't "find" the new version of that in the App Store yet.
They are still free. You can pay extra for "AI features" that are "optional".
(I have been using the new version of Numbers and it has not once nagged me for money. That's nice, at least.)
Surprised they didn't include it in the Apple One subscription
or add more iCloud storage
or add more iCloud storage
Honestly I like most of the new icons, Logic Pro is definitely bad but could have been better
Can't say that I've ever seen an uglier (and often hard to understand) set of icons.
If you needed proof Apple UX people have lost the way, you just got it.
If you needed proof Apple UX people have lost the way, you just got it.
wow it looks like they don't update the old one... New bundle identifier so both apps live next to each other!
com.apple.iWork.Pages
com.apple.Pages
com.apple.iWork.Pages
com.apple.Pages
Is this how Apple increases its profits?
Already one of the richest companies on earth.
Already one of the richest companies on earth.
Apple should build a modern Swift drag-and-drop Design app for making logos, app icons, custom buttons, app and website design mockups (and finished versions) and custom websites with Squarespace integration for publishing, and file sharing integration without need for email or third party sharing. Billing integration so designers can get paid from clients in a secure and friction-less manner. All should be exportable in industry standard file formats and sizes empowering people to start a design career.
Website design is one feature of many. Imagine a keynote where the Squarespace representative comes on stage to demo the Squarespace integration, the Stripe guy demos payment and billing integration, a photographer comes on stage to show how they use it for their business, and logo and app icon designers demo how they get creative with the app focusing on design.
Think: drag-and-drop from iWeb back in the day, but built for the modern era with a larger canvas and new tools such as background removal, shape cutting and masking, and additional new shapes, gradient styles, templates and fonts.
Start a project: app icon, custom logo, custom website, app mockup, custom button, creative canvas.
Website design is one feature of many. Imagine a keynote where the Squarespace representative comes on stage to demo the Squarespace integration, the Stripe guy demos payment and billing integration, a photographer comes on stage to show how they use it for their business, and logo and app icon designers demo how they get creative with the app focusing on design.
Think: drag-and-drop from iWeb back in the day, but built for the modern era with a larger canvas and new tools such as background removal, shape cutting and masking, and additional new shapes, gradient styles, templates and fonts.
Start a project: app icon, custom logo, custom website, app mockup, custom button, creative canvas.
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I just hope that the iWork suite also gets the Liquid Glass UI as the rest of the system and most third party apps… without having to pay the subscription, of course.
I’ll keep rejecting subscriptions, it’s like a rental that never ends and you’re constantly losing money without being able to really amortize the expense.
I guess I stick with Pages & Co. 14.5 for now, 15 has ads for upgrading to the "premium" subscription everywhere. Pixelmator Pro exist in two versions now, the acquisition of Pixelmator was a huge punch in the gut.