Thank you for creating this comparison. I liked the old style much better. In particular on the iLife apps. The new iWork apps are ok but I still like the old ones better.
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GarageBand for iOS 7 to Become Free with In-App Purchases as Apple Reveals Full Set of New iLife and iWork Icons
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Thank you for creating this comparison. I liked the old style much better. In particular on the iLife apps. The new iWork apps are ok but I still like the old ones better.
Yeah, because it's been confirmed that that's what's happening.
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*uck, Apple is going "freemium" now
There's a problem with your dismay, though:
"Freemium" gets its bad reputation from apps like games that constantly pester you to buy buy buy... but I highly doubt that Pages is gonna throw up popups every 20 seconds encouraging you to buy buy buy when you're trying to write or read something.
There may be additional clipart graphics, templates, stationary or fonts or whatever for Pages at additional cost, but this is the way it's been since forever (since at least the 1990s, but you didn't get Word for Windows 3.0 for free).
Don't Panic.
Agreed. The iPhoto and GarageBand icons are pretty weak. The new iWork ones are better but the Pages one is my least favorite. They do fit with the rest of iOS 7 though.
I hope Numbers for the Mac has gotten a lot of attention. Then I can ditch Excel and not use anything Microsoft
Agreed. The iPhoto and GarageBand icons are pretty weak. The new iWork ones are better but the Pages one is my least favorite. They do fit with the rest of iOS 7 though.
I hope Numbers for the Mac has gotten a lot of attention. Then I can ditch Excel and not use anything Microsoft
Agreed. If they give Numbers a lot of attention I will ditch Microsoft altogether. The only Microsoft Office app I regularly use anymore for my personal stuff is Excel.
At work we use Windows PC's, but they are still on Windows XP with Office 2007. With that in mind, using the current iWork apps - even on an iPad - is an improvement.
Agree. Actually I even think iPhoto should/could be THE default and only photos app.
Now that it's free, they should just merge them into a single app.
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Agreed. The iPhoto and GarageBand icons are pretty weak. The new iWork ones are better but the Pages one is my least favorite. They do fit with the rest of iOS 7 though.
I hope Numbers for the Mac has gotten a lot of attention. Then I can ditch Excel and not use anything Microsoft
Garage band could easily have been a musical note, and iPhoto simpler. Pages is a mistake to have a pen. If you're going to get rid of the ink pot, just make it a typed letter or something like Aa. Keynote and Numbers are nice.
Your current apps won't magically stop working so you have lost nothing. For all we know these could be new downloads so you get the new and can keep the old. I paid for them as well, and got plenty of use for my money. Apple owes those who bought them nothing.
love those icons. way better than the safari icon.
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holy cow, the phone icon has a phone on it? what the?? really?
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holy cow, the phone icon has a phone on it? what the?? really?
iWork are okay, iLife are horrible.
Lucky I don't have them installed on my iOS-devices or they'd be moved deep inside a folder inside a folder, so I never have to see the icons, haha.
All they have to do is remove the gradients and they'd all be fine! (except iMovie, and maybe iPhoto - those are just horrible in general...)
I'd much prefer something like this:
Lucky I don't have them installed on my iOS-devices or they'd be moved deep inside a folder inside a folder, so I never have to see the icons, haha.
All they have to do is remove the gradients and they'd all be fine! (except iMovie, and maybe iPhoto - those are just horrible in general...)
I'd much prefer something like this:
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love those icons. way better than the safari icon.
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holy cow, the phone icon has a phone on it? what the?? really?
Still think people are focusing WAY too much on icons. I use my iPad a lot and the amount of time spent looking at an app icon is very little.
Just another reason to buy iPad5.
However... The Garage Band instruments are a marketing scam. They love expansion packs to make a "free" program become an expensive bulk. Free, if you aren't doing just about anything with the program.
However... The Garage Band instruments are a marketing scam. They love expansion packs to make a "free" program become an expensive bulk. Free, if you aren't doing just about anything with the program.
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wasnt apple very much about the nuances of user experience? To a point; with things being pleasant, beautiful, cultural, academic - etc??
Werent apple fans just defending this philosophy, for example when it came to patent battles and arguments of being premium?
Seriously.
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Right, and if I DL it with my new device, can I DL it to my older ones on the same account?
Probably not....
Why on earth would you assume that behavior has been changed to be different than every other app in the iTunes Store?