[rajbot]

Although I understand the reasoning, I’m sad to see the move to subscription pricing.

I bought Final Cut and Logic a long time ago in the Mac App Store, and now my kids get to use them through Family Sharing. One of them has written hundreds of songs in Logic and published an album.

The one-time purchase of Final Cut and Logic with Family Sharing and a lifetime of upgrades has been such an unbelievable value for such powerful software.

[rchaud]

I'm against subscriptions generally, but $50/yr is significantly cheaper than the $299 for Final Cut Pro X or whatever it is they offered previously.

[rajbot]

It’s not. I bought FCP X in 2011 for $299. If you are just counting my own usage, that is $25/yr over the last 12 years, but I get to keep using for many more years, and both my kids use it through family sharing as well, so we are down to $5/year per person or less, without having to mess with yet another subscription.

I used to work on a competing product, and subscription pricing will work better for most people who are in this market, so my personal use case is an outlier I know.

Edit: all that said, I’m excited to be the first person to subscribe to Logic on the iPad. I hope that subscription is Family Sharing enabled as well!

[jonhohle]

The cost may be cheaper over $time_period (debatable), but in one case you have fully functional software and in the other you have nothing.

I know Adobe has “proven” pros will take subscription software and like it, but for every day users who like to mess around now and then, I have no interest in a perpetual subscription.

[trinix912]

At some point the Final Cut Studio package was like $1000. Still not as bad as AVID back then…

[lostgame]

You can share Apple-created iOS/iPadOS app subscriptions with other iCloud Family members. :) I can’t see this being an exception.

My hubby and I use it all the time. :)