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Some Apple Apps Will No Longer Receive Every New Feature Without a Subscription
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They'd lose all their progress with professional musicians and production studios if they did that.
I am not paying for creative tools I will never need. Guess back to office 100% of the time I will never use numbers and pages again
Tip for those who are about to ditch Logic Pro - try Reaper. Fully featured, highly optimized DAW, runs on a potato (natively on OS X Leopard (!) and further, also Win and Linux), fast, efficient, highly customizable with custom skins and scripts. One time license is $60, and yet you can re-evaluate it indefinitely.
lmao, Pages/Numbers/Keynote aren't worth paying a subscription for.
If they want more money, just reverse to the paid bi annual releases like before.
If they want more money, just reverse to the paid bi annual releases like before.
This here is why the free versions will certainly be going away sooner or later.
Keynote, Numbers, and Pages seem frozen in time. If a subscription unlocks more resources at Apple, it's fine with me. The Holy Grail for me is Keynote generating a custom on-brand design for slides from a prompt. It's difficult to find designers for Keynote slides.
On a related note, Apple should have acquired Figma 10 years ago as web design is a glaring omission in Creator Studio. Even Adobe lacks a Figma alternative.
On a related note, Apple should have acquired Figma 10 years ago as web design is a glaring omission in Creator Studio. Even Adobe lacks a Figma alternative.
Would seem to be a sensible that access to imagery in Content Hub in iWork apps would be limited to Creator Studio subscribers, but features like AI presenter notes and magic fill should just be available to everyone
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Timmy's greed is going right back to Apple's core service offerings. The next CEO is really going to earn his/her money unf**king Crook's disgusting dressing down of Apple.
No idea. Seems like it's more of a way to "sweeten the deal" for people paying for the rest of the suite.
KEYNOTE??! Keynote and the iWork applications are literally reasons for basic/early computer users to get a Mac. There is legit nothing comparable on Windows. While the features they are describing here aren't life changing, they aren't a big deal yet. This is the start and I don't like where this is going.
This change makes the apps worse off and makes Apple no better than other companies. Apple is struggling to continuously make increased hardware profits so they're now turning to software to cover the gap. Next they'll turn other native apps into freemium and then start charging for OS updates.
They just scraped the biggest selling point of FCP... the NO SUBSCRIPTION MODEL. Let's see how many new users they are going to get after that... Good luck Crapple.
Yeah like so many of these apps were really good mainly because of the lack of a subscription. Like if I have to have a subscription anyway, might as well go back to not using Apple apps.
The app will still be updated but we lose access to any new features.
Why bother updating the app then ?
Why bother updating the app then ?
Sure. But data centers cost money to run. A $4t company doesn't stay that way if they just start giving everything a way. By that logic why should they charge for the devices too?
Consider buying a redone pre-owned Mac that will run Sequoia. It's not perfect, but at some point the improvements in computing power of new versions are largely academic and a "wow" thing. Just how fast do you need to run these applications anyway? Yeah, if you're a professional who needs to render 3D shapes or do exotic modeling, 50 or even 10 percent faster makes a difference in productivity. But, for most uses and folks, not so much. If you're retired, productivity is kind of an illusion anyway.
A couple years back, I bought an iMac with an Intel processor long after Apple stopped making them. It was a factory refurb, which I finally learned meant that it probably was never sold and got put into a warehouse to be sold in a brown box instead of a white one. The manufacturing date was the last week of Intel iMac manufacture. The company I bought it from customized it by installing a snazzy SSD and 32 Gb of memory. A great deal overall. Anyway, even when running some of the engineering simulation programs I fool with since retiring, it's hard to tell much perceived difference between that i7 computer and a year old Mac Studio that I normally use for everything else.
You don't always gain that much real performance gain by buying the equivalent of a Ferrari for trips to the grocery store.
No, its more about extracting every last cent from their customers so their shareholders are happy.
easy solution - don't subscribe. I use OnlyOffice instead of Office 365.
I already own FC for years now.
Last time I used Adobe Premier was like 2005 or something. I refuse to even consider touching it again, mostly for being a subscription only product.
There is also Vegas, which I use for many years.
Some of these apps used to be there to advertise the Mac as a fully featured computer right out of the box. New features were added so that it seemed perpetually enticing to do your stuff on a Mac. I don’t understand why they would now paywall the cool, new “oh this app keeps getting updated” features. If AI is supposed to finally come to the Mac in a successful implementation, would these features on their core apps have been another reason to get people to keep Apple Intelligence running? I don’t understand Apple anymore. They are collecting pocket change and in the process destroying their marketing rhetoric.
Well, it had to happen eventually…
I do understand some services cost money, but Keynote, Pages, Numbers?… These were the Apple’s flagship apps coming by default….
Before TC leaves Apple, he has to squeeze more money from us.
If I only use Keynote, can Apple lower the cost of Mac?