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Some Apple Apps Will No Longer Receive Every New Feature Without a Subscription
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Imagine the feedback they'd be getting (in non sales) right now with Tahoe if they were trying to CHARGE for it.
Definitely - Alphabet shares, especially after the new Siri deal! 👍😎It's good to be a shareholder, I guess... 🤷♂️
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple follows the Microsoft Office model for those four apps. The Free/Included/OTP versions (whatever they become or remain) will have feature updates every couple of years. The subscription versions will have more frequent feature upgrades and will have certain "online only" features (AI for now, possibly other services down the road).
I just bought it last weekend, but using the education apps bundle. I feel your pain. I’d have rather just paid $12/mo…
I don’t really understand the hate for this. If it was 130 per month I’d get the outrage, but per year it’s a good deal.
This sounds sensible. But they need to fix their offering, because many people who use iWork have no interest in the creative stuff that is being bundled with it. And it makes no sense to pay $12.99 for a bunch of stuff you don’t want or need while Microsoft 365 is right there for $10. And it includes 1TB of storage!
Those apps continue to be free. There will be two tiers of features. All of the existing functionality will continue in the free version.
I would interpret the "..will continue to be updated" statement as basically meaning three things:
1) The current "new" features are all tied to a separate service (AI) which your subscription is really paying for.
2) You will continue to get bug fix, security, and compatibility updates for an indefinite time period.
3) You may occasionally get some new feature updates in the future, but they will not include features that are tied to online services (AI, iCloud, synchronization, collaboration). Newly developed features will be released to the subscription channel first.
I totally understand why they have to go with this move since software development is costly not to mention the AI tech requires costly computing power. Everything good must come to an end I guess.
I agree to a point, but I don't think the problem is with the offering itself, but how Apple have presented it. They got about 95% of the way to the right message, but then somehow jumped over iWork and then stumbled with some confusing and unnecessary blurb about "future updates" to iWork apps.
In reality, it would have been more clear if they just stopped at these three points:
1) Here is a new subscription service that includes all our professional multimedia creation apps for one annual price.
2) The subscription service also includes access to some great new "intelligent" features in all our creative apps.
3) As a bonus, the subscription will also provide access to new template designs, images, and intelligent features in your existing iWork applications.
This isn't a subscription for iWork. iWork is free and that likely won't change. The only thing really relevant to iWork is a few new online-only features that the subscription includes.
Ridiculous.
What started with Apple ditching its professional users with the abandonment of Aperture, has now come full circle: Apple "pro" apps now need a subscription. NO thanks.
After Apple abandoned Aperture, I realized that I could not rely on ANY Apple app, so I started the process of getting rid of them years ago. I am glad I did.
Vote with your wallet and find independent developers' apps. They are much better than Apple's anyway.
What started with Apple ditching its professional users with the abandonment of Aperture, has now come full circle: Apple "pro" apps now need a subscription. NO thanks.
After Apple abandoned Aperture, I realized that I could not rely on ANY Apple app, so I started the process of getting rid of them years ago. I am glad I did.
Vote with your wallet and find independent developers' apps. They are much better than Apple's anyway.
So many defending Apple here is why people call it a cult. I’m an Apple fan but no one other than Apple’s biggest shareholders should support moves like this. Nickeling and diming at every step is so shortsighted. The company now only cares about quarter to quarter gains with no long term vision.
Every time they make a move like this we go like “well, it’s only for these extras” but where does it stop before the company loses that Think Different shine?
Every time they make a move like this we go like “well, it’s only for these extras” but where does it stop before the company loses that Think Different shine?
Exactly. You’re on a hardware subscription as it is, because Apple decide on a whim to stop supporting perfectly functional equipment.
The new logo makes perfect sense to me. It represents a Jack-in-the-box with $$$ invoices ready to leap out from beneath the lid.
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Agreed. The ads in News+ make it too painful to use.
Between iPhone sales, AppleCare Subscriptions, and Apple One, they make enough money to NOT do this. But nooOOOoo, they just HAVE to become a little more like Adobe and make more money 🙄
Hey mate, it isn't easy to become a 5 trillion dollar company.