These Apple Apps Will No Longer Receive All New Features Without a Subscription

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If you are not funny successful subscribing to the caller Apple Creator Studio bundle introduced today, you volition officially commencement to miss retired connected immoderate caller features.


Apple said immoderate "exciting caller intelligent features and premium content" successful Final Cut Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and Freeform volition lone beryllium accessible with a Creator Studio subscription. In the U.S., a subscription costs $12.99 per month, oregon $129 per year, portion assemblage students tin wage a little $2.99 per period oregon $29 per year.

This means that if you bought Final Cut Pro oregon Pixelmator Pro via one-time purchase, which volition inactive beryllium an enactment going forward, you volition nary longer person entree to each caller features. However, Apple promises the apps volition proceed to person updates.

From the Final Cut Pro page connected Apple's website, for instance:A one-time acquisition volition inactive beryllium available, but entree to immoderate of the premium contented is disposable lone to Apple Creator Studio subscribers. If you already ain Final Cut Pro, it volition proceed to beryllium updated.There are immoderate exceptions, arsenic Apple says Logic Pro and MainStage volition person each the aforesaid features whether they are subscription oregon one-time-purchase versions.

It looks similar astir if not each of the caller features that volition beryllium constricted to Creator Studio subscribers volition beryllium powered by AI, arsenic Apple repeatedly describes them arsenic "intelligent" features. The apps are continuing to person different caller features that bash not necessitate a subscription implicit time, truthful one-time purchasers are not wholly near out.

As for Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and Freeform, those apps volition stay free, but immoderate caller intelligent features and contented volition likewise necessitate a Creator Studio subscription. This means these apps are present efficaciously "freemium."

Here are a fewer of the archetypal caller features coming to Creator Studio subscribers:

  • Pixelmator Pro: A caller Warp instrumentality lets you twist and signifier representation layers.

  • Keynote, Pages, and Numbers: A caller Content Hub provides entree to high-quality photos and graphics, and determination are caller premium templates and themes.
In summary, existing users of Final Cut Pro and Pixelmator Pro ne'er had to interest astir paying other to person each caller feature, but that is nary longer the lawsuit going forward. And portion the Keynote, Numbers, Pages, and Freeform apps ne'er outgo money, immoderate caller features volition present beryllium locked down a subscription. These changes volition undoubtedly disappoint immoderate Apple customers, portion helping to boost the company's services revenue.
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