Marco Arment

They're kind of all over the place.

If this is something that they're kind of trying to plant a flag on the ground and say, like, we're going to start doing this better or being more consistent about it, or these apps are going to be updated more frequently and they're going to compete better with their competition...

That's a good thing.

I don't think we have that here.

I think this is a rebranding with a new subscription model, and that's fine.

There's, again, pluses and minuses to that.

And most importantly, I'm happy that I don't need to subscribe to the apps in this bundle that I've already bought, that I can continue using them as a customer.

And that being said, also...

Once Apple switched to the Mac App Store and put all these apps in it, they have, I think, never charged an upgrade fee.

So I bought Logic for, I think, $200.

How many?

Like 10 years ago.

And I've never paid for another copy of Logic.

I bought Final Cut.

Final Cut, I think, was $300.

I bought that years ago.

Never paid for an upgrade.

Fortunately, I never used it because I also failed at YouTube pretty hard.

They've never charged an upgrade fee in large part because the Mac App Store can't.

On one hand, I'm like, wow, I've gotten some good value out of this and I'm glad to have bought these tools a thousand years ago.