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Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by jasoneckert »

jasongill wrote: post #9

It's $12.99/mo or $129/yr for a subscription that includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers Educational discount with verification required drops the price to $2.99/mo / $29.99/yr. The regular-price subscription includes family sharing, education price does not. One-time purchase versions remain available: Final Cut Pro ($299.99), Logic Pro ($199.99)…

The most important benefits in my opinion are choice and price - people like me who prefer to buy software outright can still do so at a reasonable cost, while others who opt for a subscription can also do so (again, at a reasonable cost).

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

tapoxi wrote: post #25
andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — come together in a single subscription So Apple is copying Adobe's business model?

Yeah but this is $129/yr, that's significantly cheaper

It’s cheap enough it’s not enough to fund development of Final Cut but also not enough money to bother spending time on it. Find it odd personally, just offering them free to keep hardware makes more sense than trying to push a tiny subscription revenue number.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by torben-friis »

I don’t get why they think “professional” is a generic tier.

If I’m a music producer, what’s the value of being given a digital art drawing program? If I’m an illustrator, why do I need a cinema post production suite?

Some people might happen to do both, but overlap is largely accidental, right? The fact that they think of all professions as a bundle is even insulting as it signals the products are mostly toys/hobbyist stuff.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by acomjean »

me_online wrote: post #23

apple can pry my one-time final cut pro purchase from my cold, dead hands.

Many years ago, before Final Cut Pro x my cousin asked me to help inject some video from tapes and keep the time code. In Final Cut Pro. I couldn’t figure it out.

So in desperation I read the manual. It was seriously well written and I understood the program, what needed to be done and how to do it.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by embedding-shape »

joezydeco wrote: post #35
kurishutofu wrote: post #12

When was the last time Apple made some significant update to its professional desktop apps?

Forget that. TikTokers are the revenue stream now.

TikTokers ("influencers" in general) don't do their editing or any part of their "production pipeline" on computers, kids are doing the full thing via smartphones nowadays. Blew my mind initially too, as I always did "serious work" at a computer and never the phone, but seems they're managing it somehow.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by nottorp »

codebyaditya wrote: post #33
fidotron wrote: post #18

> These apps will continue receiving updates, with the latest versions adopting the beautiful new visual design language with Liquid Glass on all platforms Are the Apple people really this oblivious, or is someone in PR trolling us?

I read it less as obliviousness and more as internal language leaking into marketing. What’s “Liquid Glass” to Apple reads like an aesthetic system though but to outsiders it sounds like jargon inflation. I feel the gap between internal coherence and external clarity shows up in these releases a lot.

> like an aesthetic system

An idiotic aesthetic system that ignores all the human interface guidelines that the Apple of 30+ years ago helped start.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by embedding-shape »

tjpnz wrote: post #13

Pages, Numbers and Keynote are the first apps I bin whenever I'm setting up a new Mac. Would people actually pay money for them?

> Would people actually pay money for them?

Why would someone need to buy them, they only run on macOS and macOS hardware comes with it by default, doesn't it?

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by lemonlime227 »

The individual one time purchase versions are still available for all the apps. Final Cut, Logic, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage are offered in a bundle for education by Apple as a $199.99 one time purchase (no education status is verified) [1]. Pixelmator Pro is available as a one time purchase as well for $49.99 [2]. Not included in the Creator Studio is the Lightroom alternative Photomator, which is available as a one time purchase of $119.99. You could recreate just the Creator Studio as a one time $250 purchase, or the entire suite (including Photomator) for $370.

Not available for one time purchase are the AI features and templates available for the free apps (Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Freeform).

Personally, I'm glad that one time purchases are still options for the core pro suite: long term they do hold value compared to paying Adobe a subscription (or dealing with the high seas on macOS). However, I don't see things like the education bundle sticking around much longer, so purchase it sooner rather than later.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/us-edu/shop/product/bmge2z/a/pro-apps-...

[2]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pixelmator-pro/id1289583905

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by nottorp »

tjpnz wrote: post #13

Pages, Numbers and Keynote are the first apps I bin whenever I'm setting up a new Mac. Would people actually pay money for them?

I use Pages once a month for an invoice :)

Not sure why tbh, my other invoices are done in LibreOffice.

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