Some Apple Apps Will No Longer Receive Every New Feature Without a Subscription

[spaxxedout]

Why would they sunset iMovie? That's an altogether different app, and a heck of a lot easier to use than FCP. Essentially a home/iPhone user app vs Pro app.

What are teenages with a base iPhone going to edit their video with?

Those are good points. Probably a good idea to keep iMovie around. I would be surprised if Garageband stays around though. It's a build of Logic with limited features, and with the price so low now, I just think it would be better to concentrate resources on the main product.

 

[FatLouie]

Well, now, the problem here is that so many people believe they need, or perhaps must have, an AI-capable app. Users with little talent in art, video editing, or other areas will flock to AI and gladly pay for a subscription to be an internet wunderkind.

I do not 'do' subscriptions at all. I own the software, or I do not, and it ends there. That is why, years ago, I let my Windows PhotoShop 6 wither away, as I did not care for the Adobe subscription costs, much less being tied to their server and network. Same with eBooks: if I can't buy the book and download it, I don't buy it. I suppose I am not as needy as others.

Apple's going to a subscription feature was a given when AI became a 'thing'. AI was bound to be commoditized and offered as a subscription. If all the brains are on their servers, then one day your Apple device will be nothing more than a dumb terminal with a cellular or internet connection.

I will admit, though, a fascination with discussing the aspects of the Big Bang, creation, light, and consciousness with Grok.

 

[evilzardoz]

Rightio - time to move to DaVinci Resolve.

The iPad app being a subscription model is why I didn't sign up for it - I'd buy it in an instant if it were available as a one-time purchase.

 

[Ta_whirimatea]

I don’t have any subscriptions, never will. Not interested at all. I’ve stopped buying any music from iTunes / music. Long time since I had tv trial & never tried music or fitness.

🍎 CGFI

 

[It’s always something]

If you want to get preemptively upset over something that hasn’t been announced you are obviously free to do so, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a good use of your time.

I’m totally not upset, and I don’t think anything in my one sentence post implies otherwise. As I’ve indicated elsewhere in this thread, I already subscribe to Microsoft 365, so I have no dog in this fight at all.

I just find it interesting that you would suggest that the free versions will in fact remain free at the same time you’re saying in another post that business is not charity.

 

[amancalledsun]

Those are good points. Probably a good idea to keep iMovie around. I would be surprised if Garageband stays around though. It's a build of Logic with limited features, and with the price so low now, I just think it would be better to concentrate resources on the main product.

I think GarageBand will stay. It's not like Apple has brought new features to it in a long, long time. It's only stability and compatibility updates at this point, which seem like a fairly minor effort to still have an entry-level free product to sell university students with their MacBook Air. LPX is still available for standalone purchase, which receives the same new features and updates as the subscription now being offered. I think LPX is also a complexity entry barrier for people new to audio production.

 

[evilzardoz]

I wish all companies would lock all of their AI features behind a subscription so I can opt out by not subscribing

If it's just the AI features being paywalled behind a subscription, then I'm okay with this! It means I hopefully won't be bombarded with "please, please, PLEASE use the AI features immediately" nagware a-la Microsoft.

 

[abowlby]

cheaper than microsoft office 365 and adobe suite….

Imagine comparing "iWork" to Office 365. 🤣

 

[jole]

Apple had no choice: ALL content creation will soon be humans asking AI to create content. And thus the only way to keep a creative app (music, video, graphics, I guess even spreadsheet) competitive is to at least match the features others are offering. Others will be offering "add a vocalist singing this song", "generate a music video for it", "analyze our logistics databases adding live insights to this spreadsheet", "create three endings for my unfinished book, keeping the book under 700 pages each, and show me realistic book reviews for each". In that world tokens cost real money and thus need to be funded somehow.

IMO Apple should still have jumped directly to billing based on AI usage (every AI company will go there eventually), and keep their software free.

 

[FatLouie]

Rightio - time to move to DaVinci Resolve.

The iPad app being a subscription model is why I didn't sign up for it - I'd buy it in an instant if it were available as a one-time purchase.

Struggling to learn Resolve now. I left LumaFusion because my paid-for LumaFusion update on Sequoia didn't announce that, once updated, the software would only work on 26 Tahoe. At that time, they had no block preventing updates on Sequoia. I have no intentions of going to 26.

Contacted Luma Touch, all they could say was 'sorry'. No offer to send me a working dmg, no non-26 version of LumaFusion on the app store. Only a 'sorry'.

 

[turbineseaplane]

ALL content creation will soon be humans asking AI to create content.

I wonder what for?

I'm not going to be watching (and certainly not paying for) AI created movies and music.

If humans ask AI to make a spreadsheet and then use an AI to look at the spreadsheet, is anyone stopping to ask what the point of any of it is?

 

[jole]

I don’t have any subscriptions, never will. Not interested at all. I’ve stopped buying any music from iTunes / music. Long time since I had tv trial & never tried music or fitness.

🍎 CGFI

How do you get to internet?

Do you own a phone?

 

[AgentElliot007]

Is Tim Cook gone yet? Oh, definitely not.

This guy has overseen such cultural rot at Apple, it’s unreal. You can look at the software and the push towards petty services and forced bundling, but that all boils down to the fact that the culture top down has gone to straight **** under Cook’s rudderless leadership. Jobs vision of what the company should be and stand for is long in the rear view mirror.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Is Tim Cook gone yet? Oh, definitely not.

This guy has overseen such cultural rot at Apple, it’s unreal. You can look at the software and the push towards petty services and forced bundling, but that all boils down to the fact that the culture top down has gone to straight **** under Cook’s rudderless leadership. Jobs vision of what the company should be and stand for is long in the rear view mirror.

This is what we get with a vision-less "Ops Guy" in charge.

He's finally beached the boat on the sand.

 

[It’s always something]

ALL content creation will soon be humans asking AI to create content.

It absolutely won’t be. The only thing that has yet to happen is the establishment of means and marketplaces that ensure the exclusion of AI slop. This is certainly going to take place.

 

[jeremz1ne]

Pixelmator Pro: A new Warp tool lets you twist and shape image layers.
I have got to pay a subscription for that? Your kidding right lol

 

[WB2Colorado]

ALL content creation will soon be humans asking AI to create content

I want to watch and listen to content made by humans, not AI slop.

 

[JaydenA]

No thanks Appledobe.

 

[beltzak]

Did people forget iWork and iLife? Lol we used to pay for all those software: iMovie, Keynote, GarageBand, etc. so I guess it makes sense. and Final Cut has been such a steal for people that bought it 10-5 years ago, I don't think any other professional software has had one reasonable one-time payment and forever years of free updates lol

ZBrush from Pixologic. Until it was bought by Maxon. More than 15 years of one-time payment.

 

[dlopan]

This is what we get with a vision-less "Ops Guy" in charge.

He's finally beached the boat on the sand.

I would call him for what he is, an accountant.

 

[kirky29]

I’m sick of this subscription model, I’ve cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription”Pro” subscription today as it hit over £60 a month. Insanity.

 

[maflynn]

Again....it's a business, not a charity.

No not a charity but there’s point where companies gouge their customers

 

[1037]

FFS…I literally just bought FCP last week.

Well now you don't have to buy it every month forever.

 

[zombierunner]

This is unfair. Like many I purchased FCP recently. I don’t mind subscribing but they should refund me for the purchase.

 

[vi2867]

I just need numbers. If there is a way to buy numbers outright. I'll do it, but if there is only subscription option. I'll use freemium until it does not work for me.