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> They bet the house on liquid glass How? If they reverted to the previous iOS and macOS designs, Apple would go out of business?
God only knows how much money they invested into the new GUI engine for all their platforms. It was a super expensive bet.
What are you basing these claims on?
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.
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Yes, Logic updates have been free for many years. FCP as well.
Well what I didn't receive for free is the 3 macs that have been running the same licensed product ;)
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?
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The competition for the Creator Studio is not exactly Adobe. Of course Apple will be happy to build on their offerings to be able to really take on Adobe, but this subscription is priced to compete with the online services popping up from nowhere that have stolen the ease of use market away from Adobe. The real competition in this market in 2026 is Canva.
Canva, really? Is this looking forward at what is coming? I see the rise of and have to deal with Canva-generated PDFs instead of Adobe Illustrator. So the low end market of video / animation, I could absolutely see Canva dominating. Doubt we'll see audio tools though. Final Cut Pro -- Professional non-linear video editing * Canva? Partial: Best for social clips; lacks FCP’s RAW, multicam, and AI transcript tools. Lo…
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> Name me something a product, not a service which you can only subscribe in Apple's ecosystem. The shows on Apple TV are only available via a subscription; there's no way to have a perpetual purchase (at least as far as that a la carte style of purchase is perpetual).
They specifically said “not a service” and you brought up a service.
I used to buy the season passes so I could return to shows later; that's not an option for ATV stuff.
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They don't have much of a choice. They bet the house on liquid glass and need to keep up appearances.
> They bet the house on liquid glass How? If they reverted to the previous iOS and macOS designs, Apple would go out of business?
I think it's more realistic to expect that they're going to stick with a UI officially called "Liquid Glass" for the next decade, but it's going to go through some serious iterative changes in the next couple of years -- probably much more than it would have were Alan Dye still around.
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…
What this misses is that Creative Cloud is much more than a bundle of apps. It includes everything you need around the apps for pro workflows (i.e. fonts, AI, stock, collaboration, etc...). (I work for Adobe)