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Re:Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of... by danpalmer on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:52PM (#23156214)
Other responses have made great points about why it's worth something, but I'll take another tack:

I don't think it costs Apple much to do this.

How much does it cost to keep Logic around? There's engineering/product/design costs, marketing, and training/selling costs in store. The training probably pays for itself and not many staff at Apple Stores are trained anyway. There's very little marketing, so it's entirely possible there is no dedicated marketing resource for Logic.

As for the product/engineering/design, it's well known that Apple is pretty lean on these sorts of things and often has far smaller teams than outsiders expect. I could see this easily being no more than a team of 5 at this point, maybe less. It obviously took a lot more to get it to this point, but with very few features over the last ~5 years, it's possible that it's been iterated enough to just be easy to maintain in its current form (assuming no major changes).

All in maintenance team budget could be <$2m/year (not including store training in this). Apple probably spent that on door handles in the new HQ, and I can see Logic being as important a "halo" project as the HQ door handles.

Re:Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of... by briandear on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:38PM (#23162465)
> As for the product/engineering/design, it's well known that Apple is pretty lean on these sorts of things and often has far smaller teams than outsiders expect. I could see this easily being no more than a team of 5 at this point, maybe less.

You are wrong by several orders of magnitude.

Re:Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of... by danpalmer on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:45AM (#23166299)
I could well be, but do you have any more information/hypotheses about why they need 50-500 people working on Logic?