Final Cut Pro Max.
Feels like a greedy money grab. Numbers, pages, and keynote have always been part of the Mac value proposition for me. I’m already an Apple one subscriber, and I pay for more storage. They don’t need my money to pay for the very occasional updates that they make to the apps I mention. Siphoning every possible subscription dollar from your customers is scummy behavior.
Apple has confirmed that it will continue to offer a one-time-purchase version of Final Cut Pro for Mac for $299.99, but will that version receive every new feature?
In an interview with digital filmmaking news website CineD, Apple marketing manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes said both the one-time-purchase and Apple Creator Studio versions of Final Cut Pro for Mac will include the new "intelligent" features Visual Search, Transcript Search, and Beat Detection, but his comment did not explicitly confirm if both versions of the app will receive every additional "intelligent" feature in the future. We have reached out to Apple for comment, and we will update this story if we receive a response.
What we do know is that the one-time-purchase version of Final Cut Pro for Mac will miss out on some "premium content," according to Apple's website:In the interview, Hughes went on say that both the one-time-purchase and Creator Studio versions of Final Cut Pro for Mac will continue to receive updates and "work as you expect," but we have still yet to see Apple explicitly confirm if both versions of the Mac app will have 100% feature parity forever. For now, though, it seems like customers with the one-time-purchase version will only miss out on "premium content."
Apple's website is more explicit about Logic Pro and MainStage, promising feature parity:Some other apps in the Creator Studio bundle, including Pixelmator Pro, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and Freeform, will be receiving some "intelligent" features that will not be available without a subscription, so it is a mixed bag.
For example, only Pixelmator Pro users with a Creator Studio subscription will be receiving a new Warp tool that allows you to twist and shape image layers.
Across the Keynote, Pages, and Numbers apps, Creator Studio subscribers will have access to a new Content Hub with high-quality photos and graphics, as well as new premium templates, themes, and more. Apple said its Freeform app will also be updated with "intelligent" features for Creator Studio subscribers later this year.
Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and Freeform do not cost money, but the apps will effectively be "freemium" now. Fortunately, Apple has ensured that all four of the apps will continue to receive other new features and updates without a subscription.
Overall, the introduction of the Creator Studio bundle makes for a more confusing landscape with less feature parity in some apps, and customers who dislike subscriptions have been voicing their disappointment. Keeping one-time purchase options around helps alleviate some concerns, but not everyone is happy with this direction.
Apple Creator Studio launches on Wednesday, January 28, with U.S. pricing set at $12.99 per month or $129.99 per year — read our earlier coverage to learn more.
Article Link: Will Final Cut Pro on Mac Get Every New Feature Without a Subscription? Here's What Apple Says
As a lover of the simplicity and one time purchase of Final Cut X for my amateur self, I feel like Resolve might be the way to go as well.
I think this is a bigger problem in addition to the subscription fatigue. I mean, going the subscription way is already a ****** move, but if they are going to provide a one time purchase, at least put it at the same level as the subscription product.
iWork was absolutely fantastic! I was able to do everything I wanted with it. I drew floor plans, logos, menus, used its database as a source to print customized cover letter & envelopes to restaurants I wanted to work in and they all came out sounding totally unique for each restaurant. I loved writing in it & creating a budget with its spreadsheet. It was worth so much more than they charged. After Apple killed it off I was grief stricken for years & it took forever to learn how to operate the apps we have now. They are still counterintuitive to this day, no integrated database (if you don’t count numbers). I still miss the intuitive way all the apps in iWork worked together as one. Apple Works has never been as good or do as much as iWork did. On the other hand Apple Works has been free for a very, very long time. Pages, Numbers, Keynotes no one paid for, until perhaps a few days ago. If Apple ever gets the functionality of iWork into Apple Works, I might just subscribe, but I bet they never do. 😕
Came here to say exactly this. Apple at its worst.
That’s because Apple does really have a meeting app like teams, they have FaceTime but that’s it… Isn’t that the same on gmail app?
So I cannot say that, the subscription is good for some people… For people who already bought the apps, we don’t really know if a ton of features are going to be paid…
Apple is a 3 Trillion dollar company. They have billions in physical cash in the bank. They can afford to update their paid AND free software which isn’t even free. It’s rolled into the price of the hardware that software is pre-installed on.
DaVinci isn’t for everybody. I find Premiere and FCP X much more intuitive to use. Only use DaVinci for certain projects.
It's not happening out of nowhere. Apple is pretty much responsible for the entire industry's shift to subscription everything. Apple has been pushing developers to embrace the subscription model for years. Apple launched subscriptions in 2011, the same year Microsoft launched the first Office subscription for business users. Two years later, Microsoft embraced subscriptions for Office home users, the same year Adobe got into the subscription game.
Exactly this! It's wild that this isn't common knowledge at this point. Apple wants its 30% cut from every subscription payment and has forced this model through the App Store onto everyone. There are still developers who want Apple to offer the option for paid updates, like it was before the subscription economy took over. But Apple obviously doesn’t want to do that, since it means less money for them.
