In 2011, after a couple of updates of those apps, came a big shift to how Apple sold their apps.

Although this might be true, it became apparent that Apple also might had plans to get Emagic’s engineers and their know-how to build Apple’s entry level music app “GarageBand” which was released as v1 in 2004 together with Logic Pro v6 and a lighter version of Logic Pro called “Logic Express”.

In 2002, Apple bought the German software company Emagic and it seemed that they were interested in their popular audio application “Logic”.

Let’s have a look at the timeline of Apple’s music apps. Its demise might have been part of a long-term strategy. This was the same app with just less of the pro features.

In the past, Logic Pro was available in two versions, the full “pro” application called “Logic Pro” and the light version called “Logic Express”. Now, the users are required to learn not just a few new features but almost a new application.Īpple took away the old GarageBand app and instead gave everybody, for free, GarageBand v10 – or is it “Logic Express”? Apple made the mistake, in my opinion, to label this as an update although it was more like a new application to an existing GarageBand user.

It wasn’t welcomed in the GarageBand community as much as Apple might have hoped.

Besides all the excitement about the major Logic Pro X update last year, you might have heard that GarageBand also experienced a major update in October 2013.

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