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Last week John Ternus told investors that heavier Siri AI use will cost extra one day. This week Apple showed what that bill looks like, and it left out the quantity. Logic Pro 13, out since November 5, has a Buy More Usage button for its new AI assistant. The only thing it sells is a $49.99 pack, for Creator Studio subscribers who already pay $12.99 a month.
Apple's support document is detailed about the rules. A pack starts counting only after your monthly allowance runs out, rolls over from month to month and expires a year after you buy it. It works only for the Apple Account that bought it, so Family Sharing doesn't apply. What the document never says is how much assistant use $49.99 buys. For Logic, Apple doesn't publish the monthly allowance either, only that it depends on how complex your conversations are.
Apple wants more of that recurring money badly enough that some US stores measured staff on getting 40 percent of device buyers into a subscription. MacRumors reports Apple dropped that target this month and called it a holiday pause.
I'd pay for a feature I use every day, once I know what I'm paying for. Before this model reaches Siri, Apple should put the number of requests a pack covers on the same page as the price.
Logic Pro 13 Is Apple's First Test of Paid AI
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The next Buy More Usage button: Apple says the rest of the Creator Studio update arrives this month as free updates for subscribers, including the assistant in Keynote, Pages and Numbers. Those apps already have monthly limits, and only Logic sells more so far. If the button spreads before December, packs are Apple's standard model, and Siri is the obvious next stop.
📌 On the record: By November 30, at least one Creator Studio app besides Logic Pro will sell an intelligence usage pack. I'll check on December 1.
Closing Thought
I haven't heard yet from anyone who has hit Logic's monthly limit, and I'd like to, because that's the only way to learn what a pack is worth before Apple says. Apple also hasn't said whether extra Siri AI will come through iCloud+, packs like Logic's, or both.
If Apple sold extra Siri AI for $49.99, how much would it need to cover before you'd pay?
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Justin
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