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> 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?
Here is a quick side by side comparison between Apple Creator Studio and the Adobe Creative Cloud suite. Each app may be stronger or weaker depending on the use case, workflow, and specific user needs, so this is only a rough equivalence. Function | Apple | Adobe | Adobe price / month --------------------|----------------------|---------------------|-------------------- Image editing | Pixelmator Pro | Photoshop | ~U…
Pixelmator probably is Lightroom. And adobe has "Photography Bundle" with Lightroom and Photoshop for $20/mo.
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Somehow I don't think Apple is going to put Adobe out of business.
They don't need to. They want marketshare to enhance their other market positions and give them optionality for future strategy. They'd love the whole market, but they don't need it and they won't employ too many resources chasing that. They're a powerful giant with hands in so many places. Each enforcing other endeavors. This encourages people to stay in the Apple hardware ecosystem, for instance. It dog foods their…
Best framing I’ve seen of the answer to, “Why is Apple in the streaming service business?”
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?
Numbers is brilliant simply because of independent freely-movable tables It looks so much better than the grid enforced by Excel.
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Based on revenue estimates, if Apple wanted to be competitive here, they could buy Blackmagic for a billion or so ...
It's certainly interesting that Apple have been pushing Blackmagic's products. They practically rely on Blackmagic software for all their demos when they release some new bit of hardware. They totally conceded on the camera app, for instance.
After Apple suddenly discontinued Aperture, which left users like me with huge complex photo archives hanging, I will never trust any professional software tool from Apple again. It is a disaster that I still haven't fully recovered from. I've learned my lesson — all my archives will now be maintained by me, in file structures, with metadata in text files.
Seems like a pretty solid deal, if you need everything. I don't know who that person is though. The intersection between Final Cut Pro and Logic users is pretty small, I'd imagine.
In a past life, I’d have fallen quite squarely in the latter and I still fall in the former.
Given this also extends to my family, it feels like a no-brainer replacement for creative cloud.
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I’ve been waiting to see what happens with Photomator, and the fact that it’s not being included in anyway here makes me think it might not survive? Either that, or it’s gonna be heavily integrated into Photos…
I was also surprised to not see Photomator included. Wouldn’t it perfectly complement the lineup? I hadn’t thought of such a pessimistic interpretation, but now I’m worried as well …
On the other hand, Final Cut / iMovie will exist side by side because it’s truly a basic vs Pro situation.
Not a product manager at Apple, of course, but this is what logically seems to make sense.