Q: software updates

I Could only tell you that if I could predict the future. Apple has never said the updates will be free, so they could at any time either ask you to purchase it again to buy an upgraded version, or add an in app purchase function that offered a paid upgrade.

Barak_D wrote:

 

when i buy final cut x do i get lifetime software updates?

All updates up until now have been free for FCP X owners.

Any speculation on future stuff is just that, also Apple says not to speculate in the Terms of Use.

As an aside:

"Lifetime" in the business world, I have learnt, is a subjective term.

Al

For all intents and purposes absolutely yes.

You also get to put it on as many computers as you use over the years.

Apple is not going to cheat you.

That's how Apple Software works.

You buy it once and you get all the updates as they occur forever, and you get to load it onto your new computers as the years go by to go with it.

Win, win.

A perfect deal.

@Tom

asking the FinalCut-veteran (with all respect ), in review:

The Big Number-upgrades of FC - 2,3,4,5,6,7 - were not 'free', don't they?

@Alchroma:

anyone remembering @mac …  ?

(… what happened to my compuserve-account, anyhow… )

They have been free so far and possibly will remain so.

However, it doesn't really matter as the FCP X today will work well for evermore  .  .  .  as long as you don't update your computer too much.

In any case, in another 10 years there will possibly be no such thing as FCP X.

For the next few years you should be OK, and in this rapidly changing world, who could want more  .  .  .

MMy recollection is that 2 was free, but others, including 4.5, were not free.

Apple changed their marketing strategy after FinalCut 7 to the present one a few years back.

Nobody knew what was going to happen.

Pessimists persist with their somewhat paranoid and distorted point of view, pushing their view's on unsuspecting newcomers as being actual and factual and with merit and substance.

To be believed.

The way things are.

A rather narrow minded point of view.

We get so much bang for our buck with Apple that it is unbelievable.

Not because they are swell guys but because they are marketing geniuses.

This coming from a guy who bought and paid for the new water cooled Power Mac G5 in 2005 to the tune of $3,200 I believe it was.

Only to have it become obsolete the following year when Intel was introduced.

I use it as an end table today.

I have watched this whole digital evolution from a marketing standpoint for some thirty five years now.

Marketing twenty five years before that.

Ever since the highest ranking woman in the Navy,  A Navy Admiral in the United States Navy, stated in something like 1981 on PBS that we were at that time only in the infancy of what was going to come in the world of computing and computers and software.

The Digital Age.

Later Bill Clinton came out of his Pentagon Presidential Orientation after his first inauguration stating that what he had just seen and experienced and been through was nothing short of "mind boggling".

A year or so later he turned this loose on the general public..

Computers and the digital age and the internet had begun.

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Michael Dell were still in their garages or thereabout at that time.

IBM and Sun Microsystems and Hugh's Aircraft and Hewlett Packard and Xerox were leading the pack at that time I believe.

WWith Apple's track record you probably have about six years before it's EOL.