By John Moltz
January 16, 2026 2:00 PM PT
This Week in Apple: A not so humble bundle

Apple makes you an offer you might refuse, teams up with an old rival, and then does that John Travolta looking around for something gif.
All you can eat
Apple kicked off the New Year by finally telling us what it was going to do with the Pixelmator apps it bought last year. I’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with smervises blevenue.
[Milhouse waggling his eyebrows dot gif]
“Apple introduces Apple Creator Studio, an inspiring collection of the most powerful creative apps”
Apple has bundled Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage along with the apps formerly known as iWork into a bundle thiiis biiig that you can get for $129 a year. Why would you want all of those apps as just one person? How many apps can one person use at a time? Well, we’re assuming you’re a film producer and musician who also dabbles in digital photography and needs productivity apps.…