Apple's 'Creator Studio' App Bundle Now Available for $12.99 Per Month

[lapstags]

So the Mac’s are not coming?

 

[MBAir2010]

what a fake graphic as the displays images were cut and paste without any lightshowdows, tints.
also the model is not looking directly at any screen.....maybe a bird outside that window?

 

[User 6502]

Another subscription? Thanks but no thanks 🙂

 

[ItsASpider]

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...

 

[Taustin Powers]

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! 🙂

 

[BigBlur]

Sigh. I updated Numbers, and it prompted me to download a new version of the app. The new version of the app is called "Numbers: Make Spreadsheets" in the App Store. I did download it, and now I have two "Numbers" apps in my Applications folder. :-\

I can clean it up, sure, but why did they implement it like this instead of just putting the new ("optional") features into the existing app as an update?

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.

 

[tubular]

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.

 

[ps3zocker]

The new iWork versions show up as purchased for me, but I cannot download them. Weird.

 

[TVreporter]

This bundle will cost me $2,000-plus since I’m still on an Intel iMac!

I see you working Tim!

 

[Nick A]

It seems Apple wants us to take a look at the Dell XPS 16. That's what I'm looking at, unless something happens in the next few hours.

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.

 

[everlast3434]

Boy. They should hire a creator to redo those horrible icons.

 

[Doomtomb]

Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Freeform were all free before... this is whack

 

[PotentPeas]

EDIT: Looks like this is a "universal" app now. Previously, it was an iOS/iPadOS app and a a macOS app. Now the same app supports all three OSes. So they essentially discontinue the macOS only version and added macOS support to the existing iOS/iPadOS app.

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?

[Edit]
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.

 

[PotentPeas]

Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Freeform were all free before... this is whack

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.)

 

[DHagan4755]

Boy. They should hire a creator to redo those horrible icons.

My icons never changed.

 

[tehabe]

Pages 15 still stores not used images with the file, when you open a Word (ooXML) document and save it in the Pages native format. Will Apple ever fixes this bug?

 

[verniesgarden]

Surprised they didn't include it in the Apple One subscription

or add more iCloud storage

 

[verniesgarden]

Boy. They should hire a creator to redo those horrible icons.

Honestly I like most of the new icons, Logic Pro is definitely bad but could have been better

 

[carswell]

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.

 

[tritter127]

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

 

[Dan From Canada]

Is this how Apple increases its profits?
Already one of the richest companies on earth.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

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. Unlike iWeb, which had website design as the sole goal of the app.

Imagine a keynote where the Squarespace representative comes on stage to demo website publishing via Squarespace, the Stripe guy demos payment and billing integration, a photographer comes on stage to show how they use it for their photography business, and logo and app icon designers demo how they get creative with the app focusing on design, client demos, project file sharing and even Send to Xcode.

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.

iCloud integration offers seamless project sharing with other people, allowing viewing or full editing permission on a project or per page basis.

AI feature: voice actions—change a colour, gradient, size-to-the-pixel, shape, layout and font by asking the app to do it. Select the object and hit the voice action button… “change this rounded rectangle to the hue of international orange on the golden gate bridge, make the width 275 pixels and the corners 10% more round”. “Change this font to a size 65 Helvetica in bright yellow, and underline it in black.” “Change the page background to this hex colour _____.” “Duplicate this square ten times in different pale pastel colours, and give them a slight vertical colour gradient.”

 

[Populus]

Just updated Pages and Numbers. Those icons will take some getting used to...

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.

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

Greed.

 

[tehabe]

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.