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What bugs me about Pixelmator is that they will not take your money unless you buy the product through the Mac app store, and that means that if you want to run
by dreamcompiler 6y ago
What bugs me about Pixelmator is that they will not take your money unless you buy the product through the Mac app store, and that means that if you want to run it on older hardware or an older version of MacOS you're SOL.
Contrast with Affinity, which supports lots of older versions of MacOS and will happily take your money on their own website. Affinity is the clear winner in this contest for me.
- LeoPanthera 6y agoPixelmator relies heavily on features of Core Image which are not available in versions of MacOS that don't have the App Store. Affinity does everything in the CPU, which is also why it's slower - Pixelmator gets a lot of GPU acceleration. (And frankly, complaining that it doesn't work on versions of Mac OS released over 9 years ago seems unreasonable.)
- dreamcompiler 6y agoThe latest Pixelmator won't work on MacOS 10.12, which was released 4 years ago. 10.12 most certainly has both Core Image and the App Store. Older versions of Pixelmator did work on 10.12. If you can find one, you can download it. But you can neither purchase it or activate it beyond the 30-day demo period.
- badsectoracula 6y agoHow is it unreasonable when other programs do work and your computers still works otherwise fine? Why waste money by dumping an otherwise capable computer just because of Apple's arbitrary planned obsolescence?
- PTOB 6y agoRelevant Rossman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVAmnV65_zw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVAmnV65_zw