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Final Cut Pro Trademark Update Suggests Apple Eyeing Future Subscription Model
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The student pack gives one everything for $200. Compressor, Final Cut Pro, Login Pro and Motion.
Microsoft did a major upgrade on Office every 3-4 years. Apple does an operating system every year with serious breaking changes every 3-4 years. Not sure how you expect MS office to last longer than 10 years with no upgrades.
Like many examples it comes down to work flow. If you primarily create/edit your own material or can ensure those with whom you work use the same software, the Affinity Suite is great. Pixelmator Pro is also awesome. My BF uses both (although he prefers Affinity). The integration in the Affinity Suite exceeds anything that Adobe has done.
Your Milage May Vary. My BF has been using it since Creative Suite 1. His experience is that it improves a bit and gets a bit worse, but over has been fairly buggy for as long as he has used it.
As has he. On his Mac Pro, he thinks it is a bit better than it was, not still not perfect.
He has not had that problem with his Radeon Pro Vega II Duo.
On what hardware are you running? What OS release? Given how poorly they are supported, I would never suggest nVidia cards.
(The cost of) FCP and Logic are two of the main reasons I still use a Mac. If they go the way of the sub I won't feel a compelling reason to stick with macOS.
Does anyone (outside of Adobe management) actually think a Creative Cloud subscription is a good thing? It's not like their updates have been more significant or performance changed since changing models. As far as I can tell, it's only been a negative for the industry.
It only seems to be affecting the 5700XT, and it was the latest releases from Adobe that caused it. Others with 5700xt are reporting it too.
I hear there are more people using Adobe software today than ever before.
And that's with their crazy subscription scheme.
So I dunno... it seems like it's a good thing.
Also... Adobe is actually updating MORE OFTEN since they went with subscriptions. They don't have to wait a year to add new features in the next major release.
Here are the most recent updates made to Premiere Pro in particular:
2021 February
2021 January
2020 November
2020 October
2020 September
2020 June
Some are small updates or just bug fixes... but some actually add major features.
I remember one day I didn't have Content Aware Fill in Photoshop... and the next day I did. It just came as an update! And Adobe finally added better support for CUDA cards in Premiere Pro. Encoding and decoding H.264 is much faster and smoother on my Windows machine with an RTX 2070 card.
Those were welcome updates to me!
So yeah... I can see how people hate the idea of subscriptions. But I don't see how the subscriptions have harmed the actual product cycle.
(there are people who think Adobe software has always been trash... so YMMV...)
one dy - you get a good job and afford to spend 300 - but if is a sub- you don't know- now with COVID I couldn't - please don't change - or keep a 2 way. - permanent with no extra tutorials I know it - and a version with months payment
oh how I wish the subscription model pushes developers to create a foss alternative similar or superior to the subscriptions ones
I do. The subscription model gives you access for the software at $10-15/m. The other option is pay $500-$1000 for software with no upgrades once a new feature arrives or Apple updates their MacOS now you need to pay to update your pro apps to make it work, so now its another $500.
Subscription sucks for simple software like e-mail app or video player, but for those $300+ apps its an easy access point. It makes sense, since I am pretty sure that any Pro App user make a lot more than $15 a month using that software so its win-win I guess.
Because to many of us, it's a political position.Aside that, I am wondering why software subscription article placed under political news
Fixed it for you!
Interesting!
I insist that all these subscriptions PREVENT people from becoming millionaires. Why do I bring this up? Because I want EVERYBODY on this thread to have a chance at becoming a millionaire. It's because of the love in my heart, of course.
Interesting tidbit: There are 10 million millionaires in the US. In a country of 350 million, that is 2% of the population.
Another interesting tidbit: The 3rd most frequent millionaire is (wait for it) "teacher".
Millionaires are NOT who you think they are. They didn't inherit their riches. Mostly they are not doctors or lawyers. They are everyday people who've lived in your neighborhood and bought used cars all their lives. They don't use credit cards for the "miles". Nobody ever got rich on American Express miles card. Oh and they avoid subscriptions. (that last one by me, because I don't need a study to know this is true)
Other interesting tidbits can be found in the book, "Everyday Millionaires" by Chris Hogan, available on Amazon and anywhere you might be tempted to buy a book. I'm not affiliated in any way; it's just an excellent book backed by the largest study of millionaires ever done (over 10,000).
We have a lot of things that operate like subscriptions:
Real subscriptions, such as magazines, paid-for podcasts, music streaming services, teevee access like cable or satellite.
Things that might as well BE subscriptions, such as your electric, water, sewage, internet, phone (if you still have a land line or even a VOIP service), your "home appliance warranty", if you bought one of those, all of your software, access to that guitar training site, what you pay to other training sites, what you pay to your kids' tutors or music teachers, that car extended warranty service you bought last year in the hopes that it'll pay for your transmission when it finally falls out of your car (hint: It won't pay for it!), and that monthly fee you pay to the health club, your pool cleaning service, your air conditioner guy's "family value plan", and that car wash down the street that has the gonads to charge $17 for a single wash so as to coax you into paying $24 monthly.
Almost everything you do is a subscription.
We must fight this. We must be vigilant, and the way to do that is to budget our money and be willing to sacrifice and do without so that we can be financially successful in life. Because if we're not, we will be forever poor, living paycheck to paycheck, with nothing left for kids' college, a rainy day, a financial emergency, or a new car or house.
I have that too, but even at $100 per year, I'm not so convinced yet that it's worth the money on my home machines, mostly because it lies unused! Next year, I may move to a free office product.
This is a genuine concern. "Cancel Culture" is a real thing, and a lot people are using it to ruin other people's lives, all for just having a disagreement on policy or personal views. This alone is a great reason to reduce subscriptions.
It's only a subscription model if you buy each new version without questioning whether it's worth it.
I don't buy every version of the Apple Watch, or the iPhone. And although I've bought the last 3 versions of Ableton Live, I've arrived at each of those decisions with intentionality, and only after due consideration. So it's NOT a subscription model.
Bear in mind that Apple's hardware is hideously expensive. The reason it was always justifiable was the lower cost on software.
But now iPad software has all subscriptions. Now we're talking about making Mac software all subscription. If the hardware doesn't come down in price, my reasons for wanting a 16" MBP will evaporate, and I'll just do another upgrade on my Windows machines.
Apple has total control here. If they don't adjust the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) to accommodate subscriptions, then they'll effectively strangle themselves.
OMG, dude, paragraphs, please!
You're talking about a $10 bill. I call "blindside" on you for that, because Adobe has effectively kept me OUT of their ecosystem by charging an arm, a leg, and three teeth for their whole suite. I say this with love: "eff that!"
Not if "subscription only" is the only available option, and certainly not if that subscription prices people out of their ecosystem, which is what Adobe is doing with Creative Cloud.
There's always a segment, and I think it's sizeable, who will avoid subscription software just on principle. I'm one of us!
If that means more continued updates and innovation, then fine by me for professional software. Apple cant be subsidizing pro software from other sales for too long.
That version of word will not run on anything current, nor could you exchange documents with anyone, that was the point. I am pretty sure my SE 30 still boots, but I do not would not consider the copy of Word 6 on it particularly useful.
If one does not care about compatibility with current versions of hardware/operating systems/software, there is no reason to bother with the paid version of Microsoft’s Office Software. Apple’s iWork suite, Open Office, and Google Docs are all fine for that use case.
... you’re telling me everyone and their mom bought a MacBook last year because of the sweet deal Apple gives creatives on their pro apps?
Creative Cloud subscriptions have been around for the last 9 years.
I hear there are more people using Adobe software today than ever before.
And that's with subscriptions being the only way to pay.
So I'm not seeing the evidence that Adobe is driving people away from their ecosystem because of subscription pricing. If there was... it would have happened a long time ago.
Does that mean we get an option for basic timeline functionality along with other basic features or are they still going to gravitate towards the less demanding crowd making short web content?
Office 2010 still works perfectly fine on my PC... it isn’t suddenly going to stop.
From a developer's point of view you are absolutely right. From a user's point of view however, it's a different story.