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Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by Obscurity4340 » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

nialse wrote: post #132

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Office 365 - the subscription version of Office - was released in 2011. Microsoft still offers a one time purchase of Office. There is precedent for Bigcorp keeping a one time purchase version and offer a prescription.

The one-time purchase version of Microsoft Office is not available worldwide. Where offered, it is reduced to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, with Outlook as a Business edition extra. Individual apps can sometimes be bought separately, but pricing usually makes this impractical. This is to push buyers to Microsoft 365 subscriptions which is the primary product.

What else is there/have they thats not?

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by bigyabai » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

jen20 wrote: post #72

torben-friis wrote: post #54

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/hobbyi…

> 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 Are you talking about Adobe here?

Probably not, seeing as Creative Cloud has bundles focused on specific mediums.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by hnlmorg » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

philipallstar wrote: post #175

embedding-shape wrote: post #64

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It's pretty clever that they keep the "pay one time" option still alive while announcing the availability of subscription, so anyone who says "Boo, not you too Apple" can easily be shut down with "You still have the option to buy it!" instead of leaving those critics without answers. Of course, they'll eventually remove the option to buy the software by paying once, I think everyone can see the writing on the wall, b…

> so anyone who says "Boo, not you too Apple" can easily be shut down with "You still have the option to buy it!" instead of leaving those critics without answers This is like saying that it's clever for Mars to keep Mars Bars while launching a new bar, as it "shuts down" complaints that Mars Bars will no longer exist.

I don’t really understand the point you’re trying to get at but your analogy doesn’t really work here because a new chocolate bar would be a new product. Not a different way of buying the same product.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by bigyabai » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:29 PM UTC

tarentel wrote: post #261

steve1977 wrote: post #145

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I think that's why they call it "Creator" studio. Creators - in the way the term is usually used today - indeed do use many of these tools. Maybe you produce music, create a video about you producing music and also need an engaging thumbnail for YouTube. In a feature film production, these would certainly be separate roles. But apart from maybe Logic Pro for composers, Apple's tools are not really relevant at those l…

Tons of professionals use logic. Really, you will find money making musicians using any of the major daws. Pro tools might still be the standard for recording studios but that's likely it.

Most musicians I know use Ableton or Bitwig on macOS. Logic Pro is really a hassle for collaboration and touring from what I've heard.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by data-ottawa » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

canbus wrote: post #266

geerlingguy wrote: post #109

I still miss Aperture. Photos is a far cry still, many years later. Lightroom never matched Aperture's organizational abilities for libraries with tens of thousands of RAW photos.

Tried Darktable?

For me it didn't work with Fuji RAW, so I couldn't really use it.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by jwr » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

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.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by xattt » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:33 PM UTC

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)…

> Educational discount with verification required drops the price to $2.99/mo / $29.99/yr.

Guess it’s time to take some online self-paced courses at a university for no reason in particular …

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by karmakaze » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

OT: ...protecting their privacy. LOL (wrong playbook triggered writing this)

> [...] to make Apple Creator Studio an exciting subscription suite to empower creators of all disciplines while protecting their privacy.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by data-ottawa » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:38 PM UTC

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 put up with Numbers awful pivot table mechanics (why do they have to be manually updated?) because it genuinely allows you to create nice information displays with your tables.

I have a numbers file for my personal finances and it is so nice having some tables at the top with mortgage info and then details below. It makes running what-ifs super easy. Charts in excel and GSheets just kinda float over your content awkwardly.

Re: Apple Creator Studio

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Post by handsclean » Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 5:39 PM UTC

tomovo wrote: post #199

It's a pity Apple didn't choose to acquire Affinity when there was a chance. Pixelmator Pro looks like a toy app compared to Logic or Final Cut. I don't see how it could ever catch up to Photoshop. Even at such small scale it's always been very buggy in my experience and development seems to have stalled (apart from some obligatory AI features). I am glad the standalone purchases are still available and I assume they…

Your experience is starkly different than mine. Are you sure you aren’t thinking of Pixelmator, Pixelmator Pro’s much more toy-like predecessor from ~10 years ago?

My experience is that while there’s a feature and community gap for both Pixelmator Pro and Affinity, Affinity just tried to copy Photoshop, positioning it as a worse but cheaper Photoshop, while Pixelmator Pro feels like an attempt to make a better photo editor, losing some familiarity points but also being tangibly better than Photoshop at most use cases it can handle, which is many. It’s also an excellent macOS citizen. Between those two factors, it seems much more up Apple’s alley.