Amazon's German Site Notes October 20th iLife Ship Date

[zed]

Question

I need to pick up a new iMac this week, but I'm going to wait until after Wed's event before making the purchase. If Apple does release a new version of iLife, obviously an iMac that is currently in the store is not going to have it installed.

Does anyone know if Apple typically offers any sort of upgrade path for people who have purchased computers after they announce a new iLife version? or will I need to purchase the full version once it becomes available?

 

[Corbin052198]

Taglines of the products:

Double post ;(

 

[cvaldes]

Seriously why would they call it 09 thats just dumb its all most 2011

They wouldn't.

Most likely, the German Amazon site operators used the existing iLife '09 page as a template for the future iLife product page. That's all.

You should use punctuation. It exists to make reading easier.

 

[benhollberg]

I need to pick up a new iMac this week, but I'm going to wait until after Wed's event before making the purchase. If Apple does release a new version of iLife, obviously an iMac that is currently in the store is not going to have it installed.

Does anyone know if Apple typically offers any sort of upgrade path for people who have purchased computers after they announce a new iLife version? or will I need to purchase the full version once it becomes available?

They usually tend to get the new software on them pretty quick. If anything you should just wait a couple days and it should have it. That is assuming the new iLife is actually released for purchase soon.

 

[Jodeo]

iLife for iOS

Yeah, I know this is a MAC event, but I suspect the iLife refresh will introduce iLife for iPad.

Apple started with iWork for iPad to help get the thing into businesses. Smart.

Now with the iPad at WalMart, Sams Club, Target, and other outlets like Best Buy it stands to be "THE GIFT" this year. The existing apps are great, sure, but having iPhoto will be a killer app in your lap. iMovie's already done, as is iTunes. Now roll in Garage Band and iWeb and it's just that much more fun - and like the Mac itself.

This also dovetails with rumors that the new iLife won't have iDVD since there's no drive on iPads.

But I'm wondering if the One More Thing has to do with the cloud. Store it all there: Videos, apps, music, compositions, etc. If so, they have GOT to make it affordable. In my book, Mobile Me isn't worth it.

 

[bdkennedy1]

Looks like Wednesday is going to be an early Christmas for me!

 

[goobot]

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Yay iLife 11 better be good!

 

[blizaine]

I'm such a geek. I get all excited inside when I hear rumors about a new iLife. I need to get an iLife.

 

[nikokoren]

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Im not sure what you people are talking bout..
Amazon.de has ilife 09 in their listings.. so what? Thats been out forever right?

What i find interesting is the ilife '11 and iphoto '11 book thats gonna be sold as of 1.1.2011!
The only thing its talking bout though is that ilife will be deeply integrated with sozial networks (like itunes was supposed to be) im not sure if they know that for a fact of if its just a guess.. just sayin!

It also says idvd will be scraped completely!

 

[zed]

They usually tend to get the new software on them pretty quick. If anything you should just wait a couple days and it should have it. That is assuming the new iLife is actually released for purchase soon.

Ok cool. Thanks. Yeah, I realize it is all just rumor right now, but I figure it can't hurt to wait a few days to see what happens.

 

[projectle]

iPhoto is already there, it is the Photos app. It supports everything that iPhoto currently does, besides tagging.

iMovie is on the phone and can be hacked to run on the iPad, but really requires an re-imagining of it's UI to really be "valuable" for the iPad.

 

[emulator]

Amazon has done this before and been totally wrong. Last year, they had placeholders for iLife '10. Note that there has never been an iLife '10. I think it's speculation by an overzealous staff member.

Like all those product pages come from random staff members... you are funny.

I tell you, all of them coming from at least distributors' lists.

 

[MrMoore]

Can't wait till Wednesday. I hope the iLife includes both Mac and iOS versions. Better intergration between the two. The iDisk access is all right, but there should also allow to use DropBox.

Even if they use the iWork site, make it easier to load/save documents from either OS.

EDIT: I realized I am talking about iWork not iLife.

So in the words of Emily Litella "Never Mind"

 

[andiwm2003]

iPhoto is already there, it is the Photos app. It supports everything that iPhoto currently does, besides tagging.

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that is exactly the point. iphoto on the ipad is next to useless. all you can do is stare at your pictures. no sorting, rating, tagging, renaming.

the idea is to use your ipad on the couch or on a plane and use the time to sort and tag your entire iphoto library instead of sitting on your desk. just staring on the pics doesn't really help. i hope they fix this!

 

[HLdan]

Personally I think the current iLife is fine, not much needed to update, but I do think iWork is extremely out of date. It's slow to open from a cold boot and the feature set is limited.

 

[sniffies]

that is exactly the point. iphoto on the ipad is next to useless. all you can do is stare at your pictures. no sorting, rating, tagging, renaming.

the idea is to use your ipad on the couch or on a plane and use the time to sort and tag your entire iphoto library instead of sitting on your desk. just staring on the pics doesn't really help. i hope they fix this!

Sorry for being pedantic, but I think you meant to say "I hope they change this" for there's nothing broken.

 

[BWhaler]

I'm hoping we see an amazing update to iWork and iLife on Wednesday.

 

[seashellz]

I hope iMovie recognizes the new 15 minute YouTube limit

 

[Lesser Evets]

Personally I think the current iLife is fine, not much needed to update, but I do think iWork is extremely out of date. It's slow to open from a cold boot and the feature set is limited.

Totally agree with you.

I like the old iDVD function, as well. My iLife usage isn't crazed enough to notice any lacking content. iWork is a totally different case.

 

[Michael73]

I know the rumor is about iLife but I'd like to see iWork '11, too. I think historically they've often been released on the same day or very close to each other.

 

[Ingot]

There wasn't a iLife '07 neither. So I guess introducing iLife 11 now would be fine for most of us.

This is very true. Calling it iLife '09 when it is clearly 2010 with only a few months to go is misleading. Not a very big deal, but to me it would seems that 10 or even 11 would be a better one to use.

 

[timbos]

I just bought iWork last weekend to write up a paper. I hope I can upgrade if there's an update

 

[benhollberg]

I just bought iWork last weekend to write up a paper. I hope I can upgrade if there's an update

From what I remember from the past is Apple does not give upgrade discounts for iLife/iWork if you recently bought the older iLife/iWork.

 

[BWhaler]

iWork is my jam. I'll be really psyched if there is a major update released Wednesday.

 

[MacsRgr8]

Just a thought on the rumoured 64 bit-ness of iLife '11...

I understand that the system requirements will be Intel only, and Mac OS X 10.6.x installed.... but making iLife '11 64 bits only will say good-bye to a fair number of Core Duo Mac users out there.

Makes me expect 32 bits. TBO I can't really imaging which app in the current iLife suite will benefit from being 64 bits. iMovie maybe...? Could be if huge 1080p files are edited. We'll see.