Apple Creator Studio is coming

[Katbel]

It might remove your pixelmator pro binary (not sure) but any such change should be reversible. When I installed it, it goes into the Applications folder as Pixelmator Pro, so not sure what happens if you already have a file in there with the same name.

Thanks
Just to be extra cautious I will keep one good copy on an external disk where I keep all the installers and apps I care, just to be safe. Besides of course my backups

 

[Citysnaps]

Agreed, and it's not to say the others (Apple, Davinci Resolve) are bad it's just a new learning curve that I don't want to deal with.

Yes on the learning curve.

But what would be worse is all of the non-destructive LR edits would not play well with other photo editing programs. So you'd basically be starting from scratch re-editing all of your original image files from many years ago. Assuming I wanted to do that, I probably wouldn't live long enough.

I remember moving from Aperture to Lightroom when it came out around 20 years ago. Fortunately, back then my image library was relatively small. At least for the images I wanted to keep going forward. What helped a lot was being relatively new to photography, many of my images were not very good and were easy to trash.

 

[Eric]

There's a nice update to the new Logic Pro 12, I bought it outright with no subscription and it's worth every cent.

 

[KingOfPain]

This Ars Technica article might asnwer a few more questions:

Seven things to know about how Apple's Creator Studio subscriptions work

For the Mac versions of pro apps, things aren't actually changing much (yet).

arstechnica.com

EDIT: From a comment to the article:

For Pages/Keynote/Numbers:

• The old versions are still available to download if you had them before, but will not receive future updates. If a future macOS update breaks them, tough luck.
• The new versions are free to download, and all existing functionality is available even without a Creator Studio subscription.
• However, if you aren't subscribed, you will still see features and content (templates and generative AI features, mainly) that require a sub to use. You'll be prompted to subscribe if you try to use them.
• Some of these can be removed (for instance, you can remove the generative AI buttons from the app toolbars), but not all.