Firstly, there is no official definition of "pro“.
Secondly, why should Apple care how users do things if they don't want to pay?
Apple is a company.
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Some Apple Apps Will No Longer Receive Every New Feature Without a Subscription
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Secondly, why should Apple care how users do things if they don't want to pay?
Apple is a company.
so finally subscriptions arrived and yet still no Aperture follow up (already own standalone FCP and Photomator / Pixelmator… very little use for iWork due to work M365)
My wallet stays in my pocket Timmy
My wallet stays in my pocket Timmy
As someone who purchased FCPx, Motion, and Compressor over a decade ago, and never paid another penny since....I am still greatly pissed off at this. It just means $99 a month years down the road. Just as Adobe did.
I'm not talking about paying and didn't even mention that, I'm talking about sunsetting iMovie.
Even if the pay, FCP is not an amateur app. I open it and immediately overwhelmed and don't know where to start. iMovie can be picked up in minutes.
I don't know anything about Garageband and never used it, but I think iMovie will stick around as the home users app.
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LOL. It’s one of those cases when you wonder whether a mischievous graphics designer knew exactly what they were doing and somehow managed to get their design through management review without anyone else noticing.
I really don't understand this universal push for subscription everything. I understand with smaller companies who really need cashflow, but not Apple. Do they not realize that most people can't pay $20/mnth on the 10, 20, 30+ services they apparently "need"? It seems super anti-customer, to me. Miltonian capitalism taken to its ultimate end of maximizing profit by keeping customers eternally indebted for a product they'll never own. Yes, software is always licensed, not owned, but revoking a license is extremely rare and a lot different than losing a subscription because you have a bad year.
It's cool, I've been moving to Davinci more and more. Which also means I don't need a mac to use it so my kids all learned Davinci on the PC.. If I have to subscribe, I will be platform agnostic.
Slightly OT, but does anyone know what made Jim Dalrymple sour so much on Apple? He barely posts on social media, but when he does, as he did this morning about Apple and this creator bundle, it's just nonstop negativity. And it's nothing of substance either, just the kind of stuff you'd see from a pointless fanboy argument. You don't have to simp for a company, but this guy is absolutely miserable, as if Tim Cook suddenly stopped inviting him over for Sunday supper.
The good news is ...
Well, actually, nothing about this is good news.
Well, actually, nothing about this is good news.
Maybe he got a whiff of this steaming pile of greed (sorry I mean app creator studio or whatever this is called) early. It has certainly soured me on Apple.
So we are paying premium for hardware and now they want to milk us further with subscriptions and ads are probably next. How are they different from Google again
Important nuance being missed in some of the knee-jerk reactions: the aspects which won't be available without a subscription are solely "intelligent features" (highly likely to be Apple Intelligence -based tools) and "premium content" (makes me think of clip art packs…) – neither of which sound like basic/essential functionality, and sound very much like premium additions which make things easier or nicer.
You bring up an interesting point.
A lot of folks ended up using iWork stuff because it was free.
The comparison and decision is going to be very different if it's a paid option, vs other choices out there.
It's the camels nose.
Apple is all in on Services revenue.
They won't stop with this move.
Another subscription. For "premium" features and/or add-ons. Yeahnothankyouapple.
And those icons are kinda fugly, aren't they?
And those icons are kinda fugly, aren't they?
So, going forward, will you not get a free version of iWork, iMovie, Freeform, and Garage Band when you purchase a new Mac, iPad, or iPhone? I wonder what that will do to hardware sales? Apple might be stepping over dollars to pick-up dimes.
If they do provide free versions, Apple will need to do periodic bug and security fixes. Plus, at least some modest feature improvements, and it is going to need at least some AI integration or it will be completely outdated in a few years.
As a reference point, of my three adult children and three nieces/nephews (all in late 20s), 100% use AI for at least some portion of their document preparation and emails. There is no getting around it. In a few years, a productivity suite without at least some basic AI integration will be pretty much useless.
If they do provide free versions, Apple will need to do periodic bug and security fixes. Plus, at least some modest feature improvements, and it is going to need at least some AI integration or it will be completely outdated in a few years.
As a reference point, of my three adult children and three nieces/nephews (all in late 20s), 100% use AI for at least some portion of their document preparation and emails. There is no getting around it. In a few years, a productivity suite without at least some basic AI integration will be pretty much useless.
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isn’t it amazing that you have to pay extra to be more locked to their ecosystem?
You'll get the free version, but nagged to upgrade to the intelligent features, I guess?
Sorry Apple, but
I'm starting to wonder if the best long term Mac is one of the last Intel ones where one can dual boot for Windows/Gaming as well as run older less scummed up macOS versions and software.
We don't use any of the 'creator' tools in this silly subscription (except the old standbys) but if I read this correctly if I don't sign up for a subscription I won't be burdened by more silly AI BS crammed into my Pages, Numbers or Keynote.
Win-win!
Win-win!
Because he is. Tim Cook is.And why does the numbers icon feel like Apple is flipping me off???
While Freeform was always free, I distinctly remember buying iWork as boxed software for my mac and paying for them every couple of years, and then even buying for them on the App Store for my iPad .