Is Apple killing paid upgrades?
Apple’s release of Logic Pro X has brought users of the company’s audio authoring software a slew of new features. By all accounts, it seems to be an excellent update to a very popular app used by thousands of artists, famous and otherwise.
One thing that’s not included in the package, though, is an option for existing customers to upgrade from Logic Pro 9 for a reduced price. Regardless of whether you’re approaching Logic for the first time, or you’re a long-running user of the app, getting your hands on this latest version will set you back a cool $200—no exceptions.
Mouth where the money is
In a sense, this was to be expected. Logic, like almost every other piece of software Apple offers, is now distributed exclusively through the Mac App Store, which doesn’t make allowances for any upgrade mechanism—something that developers and users have complained about almost from the moment the store was announced.
Until now, many of Apple’s consumer apps have received free updates—the one notable exception being OS X. This approach, however, cannot work for higher-priced “prosumer” software, which reaches a smaller market and cannot easily be justified simply as a way to incentivize customers to purchase the company’s hardware.
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