Regular readers might remember a column I wrote quite a while ago (MF #336) in which I lamented that Apple no longer makes new apps to help people engage in the world of new digital media. iMovie made the complex world of digital video simple; iWeb let you build websites via drag and drop; iPhoto brought photo editing to people who’d never even considered the concept. But these days, it’s down to developers on the App Store to fill the gaps of making accessible tools for people to use, which is a shame because a) they don’t have visibility in the way that an offering from Apple would have; and b) they don’t have consistent interfaces between them, which is helpful for going from one to another.
I thought about this again the other day, and I tried to think what a new iLife ’20 suite should include (bearing in mind that iMovie, GarageBand and Photos still exist).