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Ilife '09 Shipping!

This morning, I ordered the Mac Box Set from Amazon.com with a newer Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard install disc (10.5.6), iLife '09, and iWork '09. It became available early this morning, and with Amazon Prime shipping I got overnight shipping for only $3.99. Basically, I get the Mac OS X DVD for free. Gotta love Amazon...
 
Impressions

Well...
I installed iLife 09. It seems pretty good.

For first impressions... Face recognition works well BUUUTT i wish it would integrate Contacts with people faces.
 
Blunk said:
Well...
I installed iLife 09. It seems pretty good.

For first impressions... Face recognition works well BUUUTT i wish it would integrate Contacts with people faces.
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Agreed totally. I already have pictures in most of my address book contacsts, so how great would that be:

When opened for the first time, iPhoto '09 asks if it may scan for faces. Now, a checkbox like "scan Adress Book's contact pictures" would be nice to have. So when it's don scanning, it can compare a face to a person in you address book. If you have a picture of "John Appleseed" in your Address Book, iPhoto could compare it to it's faces database and ask you "is this John Appleseed?". The Address Book card could then somehow be linked to iPhoto and vice versa, allowing you to search for a contact's phone number in iPhoto and it gives you all the contact's pictures.

Or when you teach iPhoto a new face, say "Jane Doe", and there's already a Jane Doe in your Adress Book, but without a picture, iPhoto could ask you if you want to assign a photo to Jane Doe in Adress book. Then you just select one, crop if neccesary, and you're done.

I believe those things could be realized with some scripting. Getting iPhoto to scan the Adress book images is the hardest thing, I believe.

PS: Here's a nice face :)

 
jbromer said:
Yep, that's exactly it. To qualify for it, you had to purchase a mac on or after the date the new product was announced (in this case, January 6th). It is a bit stingy.
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the solution to the issue is easy. Apple offers you nothing. They were very open about the fact that ilife wasn't going to be available until the end of the month so if you bought a computer before that time, you get ilife '08 for free and if you want '09 you buy it. Just like everyone else. Or you wait 3 more weeks to get your new software for free.

This whole free update deal is a favor to you, just like the discount if you upgraded your whole itunes library to the DRMfree files. They don't have to do it. They know that folks will buy the program and the files if they want it. Or steal both if they are that type of person, regardless of what they do.

so since folks aren't happy about getting a discount, Apple should just drop them. Go for making more money over being nice.
 
plugins

does iphoto support plugins yet? If so I might consider switching away from aperture. For now though, Noise Ninja and the entire Nik collection are keeping me loyal to aperture.
 
charlituna said:
the solution to the issue is easy. Apple offers you nothing. They were very open about the fact that ilife wasn't going to be available until the end of the month so if you bought a computer before that time, you get ilife '08 for free and if you want '09 you buy it. Just like everyone else. Or you wait 3 more weeks to get your new software for free.

This whole free update deal is a favor to you, just like the discount if you upgraded your whole itunes library to the DRMfree files. They don't have to do it. They know that folks will buy the program and the files if they want it. Or steal both if they are that type of person, regardless of what they do.

so since folks aren't happy about getting a discount, Apple should just drop them. Go for making more money over being nice.
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Ummm, let's see, I think you missed the point (or didn't read the earlier posts). No one disagrees that you shouldn't have to pay for an upgrade, and no one is unhappy about the discount. We were discussing the fact that the upgrade discount only applied from January 6 on. I would think a 30 day grace window from the product announce date would be reasonable - that seems to be an industry standard. In fact, even Apple has been known to let you exchange a product if a new or updated product is announced in that time period. Therefore, the policy as we were discussing is, in my opinion, a bit stingy.
 
jbromer said:
Ummm, let's see, I think you missed the point (or didn't read the earlier posts).
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read every one of them.

No one disagrees that you shouldn't have to pay for an upgrade, and no one is unhappy about the discount.
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on the contrary, folks are disagreeing about paying and about the discount. because they don't want to have to pay by Apple's rules. they want by their rules. such as "I bought my computer a month before I even knew this software was going to exist so I want it for free".
 
For those who need more confirmation, I ordered a Macbook Wednesday, got it today, and had the iLife 09 drop in disk included.
 
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