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Apple Notifying Customers Using Older Pro Apps About Incompatibilities With macOS High Sierra

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Apple today started sending out emails to customers who are using older versions of its pro apps to inform them about impending incompatibilities with macOS High Sierra.

MacRumors readers Lee and Dane both received emails letting them know that macOS High Sierra will not work with Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio, both of which are 32-bit apps that last saw updates in 2010.
Our records show that you may be using applications included in Logic Studio. We wanted to share some important compatibility information about these applications and macOS High Sierra, which will be available this fall.

Older versions of Apple pro music applications -- including applications in Logic Studio -- will not launch on a computer running macOS High Sierra.

New versions of Apple pro music applications -- including Logic Pro X and MainStage 3 -- are compatible with macOS High Sierra. You can purchase these applications on the App Store.
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A support document linked in the email directs users to an article that further outlines which versions of Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X, and other software will work with macOS High Sierra.

According to the document, the following versions of pro apps are compatible with the macOS High Sierra update:

[*]Final Cut Pro X 10.3.4 or later
[*]Motion 5.3.2 or later
[*]Compressor 4.3.2 or later
[*]Logic Pro X 10.3.1 or later
[*]MainStage 3.3 or later

Customers running earlier versions of these apps will need to update them to ensure compatibility with macOS High Sierra.

macOS High Sierra is in the final stages of testing and will see a public release this fall. The update brings many under-the-hood improvements, including a new file system, new high efficiency video encoding, a Metal 2 graphics API, support for eGPUs and VR content, and more.

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As a former Aperture user, I am mostly fine with Photos app's photo editing capabilities, especially now that High Sierra allows third party integration (at least with Pixelmator and Photoshop).

But I really miss Aperture's much more powerful organization tools that can filter, sort, and search by just about any meta data.
 
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I really hope they don't completely pull the plug on Aperture. It's been definitely acting up on these High Sierra betas. But Photos alone just doesn't cut it, no matter what they say. And Lightroom is just another bag of troubles, and apparently Adobe agrees since they're developing Project Nimbus.

Aperture with updated UI, like Final Cut X, would be like a step into heaven.
 
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This is funny... based on the low-quality Apple icon in the email and lack of formatting (aka: spelling my name wrong), I marked this email as spam.

Well done Phil, marketing genius!
 
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Apple treats its Pro customers like DIRT and that's why many have already switched to Winblows out of disgust.

When I bought my 1st Mac Pro, I had Final Cut Pro, Compression, Motion, and Logic Pro installed with Mavericks.

All incompatible with Yosemite update. They all still work if I boot Mavericks. But Apple forced Pro customers to pay a "Yosemite price" and re-pay for all the apps. This kind of stuff leads to people leaving the platform. :(
 
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gcbarre said:
I still use Aperture, I have not found a better Photo Organizer with more than a basic photo editing capabilities.
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I switched to LR for my RAW photos but still miss Aperture. I can understand if Apple didn't want to sink $ into keeping it current but I don't know why they didn't spin it off like FileMaker or just sell it to an entrepreneurial developer.
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BaltimoreMediaBlog said:
Apple treats its Pro customers like DIRT and that's why many have already switched to Winblows out of disgust.
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If Apple treated pro customers like dirt it would have to at least acknowledge their existence. Apple pretends pro and hobbyist users do not exist - esp. hardware and some "features" in OS X and iOS. But while I take this treatment sittingdown, I'm not so much of a masochist that I'd go Windows.

As for buying re-buying apps that was a long time ago. I bought one copy of FCPX and haven't had to pay for an update since even though many features have been added since then. (I owned FCP 1.0 and paid for updates until Studio 2.0). Compare that to, say, Adobe, where you have to pay every month to be just to be eligible for feature updates. I also own CS6 Suite, which was not cheap. No improvements coming my way there ever. Eventually it might break with a future version of OS X and zero upgrade path other than to subscribe. So I can't be harsh on Apple regarding their upgrades.
 
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Some may say disgraceful and greedy.

They have legitimate reasons. Don't update if you don't want to lose use.
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BaltimoreMediaBlog said:
Apple treats its Pro customers like DIRT and that's why many have already switched to Winblows out of disgust.

When I bought my 1st Mac Pro, I had Final Cut Pro, Compression, Motion, and Logic Pro installed with Mavericks.

All incompatible with Yosemite update. They all still work if I boot Mavericks. But Apple forced Pro customers to pay a "Yosemite price" and re-pay for all the apps. This kind of stuff leads to people leaving the platform. :(
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Lol.
 
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How exactly does Apple know who is using those apps? It gathers what is supposed to be completely anonymized usage data, which would tell them how many people are using these apps, but not who.

If they used any user-submitted analytics data, they're in clear violation of their own privacy policy.
 
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How exactly does Apple know who is using those apps? It gathers what is supposed to be completely anonymized usage data, which would tell them how many people are using these apps, but not who.

If they used any user-submitted analytics data, they're in clear violation of their own privacy policy.
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For me, I registered my final cut studio products and i’m guessing apps purchased through the app store they can look at your apple account and purchase history, regardless of usage data sent to them, they have your info as a product customer.
 
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Dilster3k said:
I really hope they don't completely pull the plug on Aperture. It's been definitely acting up on these High Sierra betas. But Photos alone just doesn't cut it, no matter what they say. And Lightroom is just another bag of troubles, and apparently Adobe agrees since they're developing Project Nimbus.

Aperture with updated UI, like Final Cut X, would be like a step into heaven.
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A bunch of nonsense about Lightroom. Why do people say stuff like this with absolutely nothing to back up their statement? Lightroom is solid and has been for years. Project Nimbus is not a replacement for Lightroom and they've said as much. More like Lightroom for iOS.
 
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I'm still using iDVD in Sierra, didn't receive any notification but it was registered way back.
The last Final Cut I purchased was for my G5. Never received a notice about that.
 
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Chupa Chupa said:
I switched to LR for my RAW photos but still miss Aperture. I can understand if Apple didn't want to sink $ into keeping it current but I don't know why they didn't spin it off like FileMaker or just sell it to an entrepreneurial developer.
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While I love LR, my entire photos and video library is on iCloud Photo Library. I wish Apple would open it up to third party apps.
 
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On a somewhat related note: I have a question about the Pro App Bundle for Education, which I believe includes the latest versions of all of these for $199, which seems like an incredible deal. I work at a university, so I'm eligible for Educational pricing. Looking at the license agreements on that page, it seems like it's allowed to be installed on multiple computers "that you own or control" for personal use. Does that mean within a "household"? I've never ordered software from the Mac App Store - is it tied to an Apple ID? Example: I'm planning to buy an iMac and was considering getting this bundle to learn Final Cut. Could I also install it on my wife's MBP for working on projects remotely? Would I just have to "log in" to the App Store on her machine to download/install? How does this work? Thanks for your help!
 
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I have no issue with Audio pro apps or Video.. since I love the newer incarnations. As for Photos.. if Aperture stopped working, I stop upgrading. Nuff Said. Can we all agree to Tweet @tim_cook about #Aperture?
 
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