Product Confusion / Magix Relationship Breakdown?

**Chris M** · 18 February 2023, 10:15 PM

When the subject of Pro+ vs Magix comes up (which is quite often), it always seems to turn into a competition.

At the very basic level:
As soon as an update/fix/whatever is available, it is pushed out to the Xara+ range. Magix is rolled out twice a year at best.
Xara+ is SAAS (rent it, not buy it). Stop paying, stop using.
Magix is buy and own forever that particular version only. If you buy v19, you do not forever own 19.1, just 19.
The rest gets lost in all the 'ah, buts' that float around.

One of the biggest points is that neither Xara+ nor Magix versions appear to be properly maintained. There are many failings that are passed off as quirks, or anomalies, that are completely ignored. As Acorn stated somewhere else, over 100 photo filters were added as a feature. Why not fix the non-working parts you have? A new dangly air freshener doesn't compensate for the fact the car has a misfire and a wobbly wheel.

**handrawn** · 18 February 2023, 10:33 PM

as has been said elsewhere they should idealy do what serif did with affinity - rewrite all their modules from scratch; I would imagine some of the program modules are very long in the tooth, the documentation perhaps not so helpful for those not around at the time they were written... limitations built in to suit yesterdays hardware that could be removed...