rob53

iqatedo said:

Is there word on how this purchase by Apple affects those of us who previously purchased Pixelmator(Pro?)?

Those that bought Pixelmator own the software. We don't pay a subscription so there's nothing to really worry about where money is concerned. At least not yet. I assume you/we could simply not upgrade Pixelmator Pro if we don't want to. It will still work. 

As for future upgrades to Apple Pixelmator, our only hope is that Apple will continue to grow this app instead of killing it. Yes, it might change its name or be incorporated into a Photos Pro app but until Apple actually changes something other than the splash screen, there's no real reason to worry about anything. Just continue to use Pixelmator, the best photo app on the App Store (sorry Adobe, you're crazy expensive subscription model is not worth it).

Ok Germany, where's your computer devices that are used worldwide? Oh, can't actually make any that people want to use? Quit complaining about Apple's success and try and compete instead of trying to make money by fining an American company.

I have to laugh about the ad revenue generated from Safari search result advertising. Raise your hand if you AREN'T using some kind of advertisement blocking on Safari. Wait, I'm not seeing any hands so at least the commenters on this forum aren't bothered by Google's (and other's) advertising. Apple knows this and they got $20B along with 36% of ad revenue. I use DuckDuckGo and there's very little advertising except for those ads buried in websites that aren't from Google. 

I just ran SuperDuper and it did everything fine. I'm running macOS 15.2 and SuperDuper v3.9.1 (v134). No errors. I'm running on a 2019 Intel iMac. I did notice SuperDuper made some information changes on the front screen but I always do  the Backup-all files setting almost every night. Here's the last several lines of the SuperDuper log file showing it finished properly. I'm also, as always, running FileVault. Maybe the only problems are show up on Apple silicon Macs.

| 02:25:41 PM | Info | PHASE: 3. After Successful Copy

| 02:25:42 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Finalizing Mac Backup

| 02:25:42 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cleaning up Macintosh HD Snapshot

| 02:25:42 PM | Info |       Unmounting com.apple.TimeMachine.2024-12-17-141100.local@/dev/disk5s1 mounted on /private/var/folders/l7/vdrrhzjc8xlfky001s6xmr1h0000gp/T/com.blacey.SuperDuper/6712EEBC-1C1C-4437-9E44-B34E2D88A476/snapshot

| 02:25:43 PM | Info |       Unmount successful for /private/var/folders/l7/vdrrhzjc8xlfky001s6xmr1h0000gp/T/com.blacey.SuperDuper/6712EEBC-1C1C-4437-9E44-B34E2D88A476/snapshot

| 02:25:44 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Removing session temporary directory

| 02:25:44 PM | Info | PHASE: 4. And Finally...

| 02:25:45 PM | Info | ...ACTION: Quitting SuperDuper!

| 02:25:45 PM | Info | ......COMMAND => Quitting SuperDuper!

| 02:25:46 PM | Info | Copy complete.

For those of you wondering whether you can get a non-Apple replacement storage card, check out the kickstarter site https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polysoftservices/studio-drive/posts/4247624 that has been building storage cards for the M1 Mac Studio. They are already working on storage cards for the M4 Mac mini.