The Apple Creator Studio subscription has ruined once great and kid friendly iPad apps like Keynote and Pages.

[ashtondev@mastodon.social]

The Apple Creator Studio subscription has ruined once great and kid friendly iPad apps like Keynote and Pages. Half the buttons prompt you to upgrade, the subscription and premium AI features are pushed HARD.

[ashtondev@mastodon.social]

The Apple Store near me used to run a session for kids where they made a comic book in Keynote. I can’t imagine how that session would go now.

[mora@mastodon.uno]

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[nicklockwood@mastodon.social]

@AshtonDev I guess the in-store apps would be pre-subscribed, so they would just not mention it at all in the session and let the kids be disappointed when they tried it at home later

[maschinentraum@mastodon.green]

@AshtonDev @marcoarment

Enshitification, the.

[codingitwrong@oldbytes.space]

@AshtonDev @marcoarment remember back when the 30% App Store commission was enough money for Apple?

[bbech@mastodon.social]

@AshtonDev my toddler likes to just type and I’d let him use Pages because every so often he’d accidentally change the font or colors and it would bring him joy. When this rolled out all of a sudden he was freaking out because he wasn’t sure what’s happening. There were a bunch of watermarked image generations all over the place because they made the AI buttons purple when no other button has color

[vmachiel@mastodon.nl]

@AshtonDev @marcoarment adding the formally free Pages, Keynote and Number was just a pure anti consumer, penny pinching move.

[hootenhaller@mastodon.social]

@AshtonDev Apple created a new job category. https://mastodon.social/@HootenHaller/116218347588155590

[xenonchromatic@mastodon.social]

@AshtonDev Wont you please have some sensitivity to Tim Cook's stock bonus?