iLife '11 Pages Appear on Amazon's Site

[dimmer-fj]

iWork needs to be a big update this year with Office 2011 coming out.

You may have your logic totally skewed here. Apple still needs Office for their corp/ent market. So why try to mess with Microsoft with a $99 WP/SS/DTPr solution that goes up against MS's $129 Office 2011? No matter how much money Apple makes from iWork, it's not worth the grief of not having Office for Mac.

Apple did paint themselves into a corner here: dropping all of the Claris apps to give MS a clear playspace thus making Office worthwhile; having to make some money back from Keynote as there was no way Steve would use PowerPoint; having to cover for the demise of AppleWorks with some basic Word Processing tool; having to make up for that by adding a basic spreadsheet...

Welcome to the world of hurt.

Keynote is demonstrably better than PowerPoint;
Pages is purer, UI wise, but can't do anything Word can't (and vice versa);
Numbers can't do even close to what Resolve could.

Up next, a database app to take on Access?
Damn, I guess someone forgot to close FileMaker. (I blame Oracle for not paying the $500,000 price Apple wanted for it.)

If iWork thrives, Office dies.
If Office dies, enterprise sales die.

Which effort would you put the bullet in the head of?

 

[I WAS the one]

I bet a New app Will be introduced. Somewhat of a html5 builder for web content if they want to push that no matter what. i5 - the new standard in web animation.

iWeb will wow the visitors for the first time! Lol

 

[Perdification]

I really feel like giving it a try... Hope the mystery app will turn out to be good.

 

[orbital~debris]

I've just read a blog post about the rumoured touchscreen iMac (typical! The rumours gather steam on these just as I've bought a new iMac that's supposed to last me the next few years… nonetheless the iMac i7 is an awesome computer in it's own right ) and thought the comment in the last paragraph was noteworthy: apparently Amazon (USA I presume) is heavily discounting iLife & iWork at the moment, which the author hints is suggestive of imminent upgrades.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17074/apples_touchscreen_imac_heads_closer_to_reality

I wonder if Apple would have a press release only introduction, or is an Event a pre-requisite?

 

[sniffies]

I wonder if Apple would have a press release only introduction, or is an Event a pre-requisite?

Nope, won't happen without some kinda event, esp. with a mystery app up their sleeves. No way.

 

[SCOTTHORN]

iLife 11 will probably bring a new web site application that will make iWeb obsolete in a year or 2 and then those web sites will be discontinued and apple will be able to email you at your @me.com because @mac.com was discontinued and say …We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. i don't think i am going to buy anymore soon to be updated ie obsolete software from apple for a while.

 

[sniffies]

That'd have to be one hell of an update to iWork and iLife to justify a media event. There are no other products to update this year except the Air, and there's no way Apple does an event for those three. I wouldn't even expect a media event for 7" iPads unless something additional was in the offing.

I doubt there's going to be any more Apple events until iPad 2.0, unless they do a preemptive one before the Verizon CES announcement regarding the Verizon iPhone and iPad functionality.

Well, mate, you were wrong.

There WAS a separate October event, and iLife and Air updates were underwhelming, plus, there was no iWork, iWeb, iDVD update. So there you go.