If there’s no spot for Final Cut Pro on the iPad, something big must be coming.
At long last, Apple this week unveiled Final Cut Pro and Logic Audio for the iPad, finally bringing its professional production apps to its high-end tablets. I’m no AV expert, but the apps appear to be nearly full versions of the Mac apps with touch interfaces for the relatively low price of $4.99 a month or $49 a year.
It’s the kind of announcement that would work very well as an appetizer at any keynote. And there just happens to be one coming up in just a few weeks. But Tim Cook must have looked at the slate of announcements for WWDC and decided there simply wasn’t room for one more.
That’s pretty exciting. WWDC doesn’t usually get the level of hype that the September iPhone event gets, but this year already feels different. Rumors are pointing to several new products for the software-centric show—and now that Apple has seemingly dropped a major announcement from the event, iOS 17 might feel like an afterthought.
Read more at MacWorld.com