iWorkįans of Apple’s productivity suite have been on a roller coaster for the last several years. Overall, I think GarageBand’s future is fine, as long as Apple makes it clear to users when they should make the plunge to Logic. Upon release, it had lost many podcast-centric features and the new UI is confusing in places. However, it’s not all sunshine and roses with GarageBand 10. It now packs many features that were previously reserved for Logic customers, including the Drummer and advanced vocal tools. Version 10.0.3 of GarageBand was released alongside Yosemite in October, and included fixes for the new OS, better controls over audio effect plug-ins and more.įor most users, GarageBand 10 is an improvement over previous versions. $4.99 on the Mac App Store | 4 stars with 163 ratings The update brought Yosemite fixes, new file export options - including custom H.264, ProRes and Audio Only options - as well as many other timeline and editing tool updates.Ĭupertino is still clearly interested in iMovie, and while it may lack the simplicity of iMovie HD, it’s a powerful, easy-to-use application that signs off on the iLife brand promise. IMovie was last updated on Octoand sits at version 10.0.6. $14.99 on the Mac App Store | 3.5 stars with 341 ratingsĪfter being gutted many years ago, Apple has been steadily building iMovie back up. IPhoto currently sits at version 9.6, and was last updated to address compatibility and stability issues under OS X Yosemite on October 16, 2014. Clearly, Apple’s not going to invest in a UI overhaul for a lame duck application, which makes me wonder if the general public missed the company’s announcement about the future of the program. Many reviews I saw complain about the UI looking out of place on OS X Yosemite. User reviews for iPhoto are all over the map, but the negative ones complain of missing photos, confusing organizational tools. What was once a powerful, sleek, easy-to-use application for the everyday Mac user has grown slow and bloated. IPhoto, once perhaps the crown jewel of iLife, is dying very soon, to be replaced with Apple’s upcoming iCloud-backed Photos application.įor me, the writing has been on the wall for quite some time. iPhotoįree on the Mac App Store | 2.5 stars with 1,031 ratings The once-powerful iLife brand is dead, but some of the apps are still around. Whatever sibling-hood once defined them, it’s been lost to time. Even on, these three apps are divided up onto their own pages. iLifeīest I can tell, the name “iLife” only shows up in the App Store these days. The current version of OS X Server is 4.0 and was released on October 16, alongside Yosemite. It’s fine for home and small business use, but past that, it just doesn’t scale. That rift continues to be the case with 4.0, and I don’t expect Server to ever grow past where it is now, market-wise. That deep-seated change has left OS X Server easier to use, but less powerful on the high-end of things. OS X Server is generally updated with OS X, but that hasn’t been the case with Yosemite so far. With that change, OS X Server is now just $19.99, a far cry from the $499 price tag it used to demand for unlimited users. Starting with OS X Lion, OS X Server is no longer a separate operating system, but rather a bundle of utilities and programs that are installed on top of OS X itself. $19.99 on the Mac App Store | 3 stars with 86 ratings The current version of OS X Yosemite is 10.0.1 and was updated on November 17, 2014. All-in-all, I’m happy with Yosemite, but clearly that sentiment isn’t universal. The poor performance is plaguing Yosemite in its App Store ratings, but many users are underwhelmed or confused by the new UI or features. This time around, some users have seen issues with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and poor performance. Like many versions of OS X, Yosemite’s initial release had some problems. Released on October 16 with a sweeping UI overhaul, Yosemite marks a new chapter in OS X’s story. OS X Yosemiteįree on the Mac App Store | 2.5 stars with 2,778 ratings While OS X Server isn’t its own OS anymore, Apple groups Yosemite and the OS X Server bundle together in the Mac App Store. Ratings pulled from the Mac App Store on December 14, 2014. Please note that all prices listed below don’t take into account that many of these apps are free for with new Macs. Let’s revisit that, and see how things shape up here at the end of 2014. Back in May of 2013, I took a look at all of Apple’s software in the Mac App Store and walked away with the conclusion that a lot of Apple’s first-party Mac apps were in pretty sorry shape.
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