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Can someone give some insight why acquisitions like this happen? Is it to take over the user base or is it actually about the product itself? I am asking because I always hear of multi-million dollar acquisitions and wonder if apple (in this case) couldn't just create the same software themselves cheaper.
>it’s crazy what a small group of dedicated people have been able to achieve over the years from all the way in Vilnius, Lithuania Silly segway, but at least the codebase, IP (and maybe the dev team ?) might get somewhere safe to stay. Call me a Cassandra, but the situation in the Baltics is not guaranteed to be safe in the next few years, especially given the probable results from a certain election in a few days. O…
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Unfortunately I am in position where I have to master mixes done in Logic and this backwards crap can easily add up to half an hour onto every track. Sick of it. Dying on that hill!
I mean put it in your requirements and reject the mix if it contains pops and clicks... Whoever did the mixing has the original with cuts so can add fades much much quicker than you can. And if they don't well, more work for them. Or just add it to the bill, if you are clear upfront that it will add $$$ there's no issues there. I've had sessions rejected by mastering engineers for stuff that I've had to correct, why…
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macOS has no such restrictions as it does not require the App Store.
Didn't know what Pixelmator was, looked them up and they only distribute through the App Store. I haven't been an Apple user for over 10 years, through that macOS now uses the App Store to distribute OS updates. There is no getting around the App Store on macOS and must be used for Apple related software releases, such a Xcode. The community that looks for applications not in the App Store is most likely quite low. I…
Well done team Lithuania! Remember hearing Pixelmator founders giving a speech ~12 years ago. They were very vocal and repeated this many times: "Our marketing strategy is to just focus on the product". Not sure I agree with that statement, but they sure seem to followed it thoroughly. Congrats on the acquisition!
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As a software developer who made good money reaching hundreds of thousands of people through the app store where the old “put up a website and buy advertising” model might have netted me single-digit thousands of sales, I am always surprised at the white knights telling me I got no value from paying 30% of revenue. If the app store is “mafia tactics”, I can’t even imagine how demonic things like wholesalers mist be.
> I am always surprised at the white knights telling me I got no value from paying 30% of revenue. Wether or not the 30% is proportional to the value you get by being on the App Store depends on your situation. That is why choice is a great thing.
This is missing from the conversation, is on average, smaller corporations can better keep via the App Store model vs the open software market, because it allows for focused marketing on a fair playing field
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Creative software and macbooks are complement goods. i.e., demand for macbooks goes up when creative software gets cheaper, and vice versa. This is a case where mergers are expected to make prices go down. As opposed for substitute goods, like macbooks and dell laptops, where a merger would probably make prices go up. In both cases you have a prisoner's dilemma between vendors - with vendors producing substitute good…
> demand for macbooks goes up when creative software gets cheaper Is this something you just made up, or does this really happen? Colour me sceptical.
Of course, theories and the reality don't always match up.
apple's pro apps have been in a weird space for a while. aperture dying was a bummer, and final cut and logic feel simultaneously actively developed and abandoned to me, there's just not much buzz around them. it would be very neat if apple started to build the necessary portfolio of software to provide a viable, ideally not-subscription-based competitor to adobe's suite of products. they certainly have had the chops…
> final cut and logic feel simultaneously actively developed and abandoned to me, there's just not much buzz around them. They're professional tools . For use by people who are paid to use them. You don't want there to be buzz, you want them to just work. Buzz is a godawful metric for useful software.
My sample size here is small, but yeah, from my horizon FCP is starting to look abandoned.
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I suspect this move is due to behind the scenes Adobe / Apple relations souring over the years. Adobe used to be one of their biggest supporters and helped winning over users to the Mac platform. This has diverged significantly over the years, and I think Apple is looking at Adobe and their business model and realizing that it both lucrative for them to have software that fills into this market to round out their cre…
Apple and Adobe have always had a sour relationship. Adobe's crappy font licensing led to truetype and they're crappy implementation of Flash led to Jobs dropping flash in the iPhone just to mention a few things from their history.