If I recall correctly the standalone applications predate the Office bundle. The original notion of a suite of applications was Microsoft Works.
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Mac App Store to Offer Unbundled iLife and iWork Applications?
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So is Apple going to have a bunch of iLife 11 boxes sitting on the shelves of every Apple Store, because people are going to wait and buy individual applications in the Mac App Store (available within 90 days)? They should have released a beta yesterday, to at least give us an option to download core applications.
So is Apple going to have a bunch of iLife 11 boxes sitting on the shelves of every Apple Store, because people are going to wait and buy individual applications in the Mac App Store (available within 90 days)? They should have released a beta yesterday, to at least give us an option to download core applications.
I don’t use iPhoto. Call me old school, but can anyone explain to me what functionality it offers well above Finder? Does it seamlessly integrate with Photoshop for example? I’m not interested in eye candy or template type functionality. I always find that Apple’s templates limit my creativity. Will its workflows really blow me away? Is it worth using ‘9 let alone upgrading to ’11?
I don’t use GarageBand. I wish I were more musical, but I’m not. My acoustic guitar is in the corner gathering dust. No upgrade wanted here.
I use iMovie and in combination with iDVD. I’m excited about the new audio features. Other than that what new functionality does it offer, besides trailers? I wish iMovie and iDVD were faster (I’m using the lower speed i5 with 4 GB RAM) at converting/compiling projects. If I got that, I would be delirious. Anyway, I’ll probably upgrade this once the Mac App Store comes online.
iDVD drives me nuts too. I hate its templates, it’s hard to find tracks I want to use in it, and again its templates need to be more customizable. I don’t need the main menus to be so complex and add precious MB to a movie. Maybe Toast would be more to my liking. I have it, but have never used it.
iWork? Meh. I use MS Office. I just wish it were more stable, loaded more quickly, and had a more intuitive GUI. My fantasy is for MS and Apple to tightly partner to produce a truly Apple-like release of Office.
I don’t use GarageBand. I wish I were more musical, but I’m not. My acoustic guitar is in the corner gathering dust. No upgrade wanted here.
I use iMovie and in combination with iDVD. I’m excited about the new audio features. Other than that what new functionality does it offer, besides trailers? I wish iMovie and iDVD were faster (I’m using the lower speed i5 with 4 GB RAM) at converting/compiling projects. If I got that, I would be delirious. Anyway, I’ll probably upgrade this once the Mac App Store comes online.
iDVD drives me nuts too. I hate its templates, it’s hard to find tracks I want to use in it, and again its templates need to be more customizable. I don’t need the main menus to be so complex and add precious MB to a movie. Maybe Toast would be more to my liking. I have it, but have never used it.
iWork? Meh. I use MS Office. I just wish it were more stable, loaded more quickly, and had a more intuitive GUI. My fantasy is for MS and Apple to tightly partner to produce a truly Apple-like release of Office.
So how will this work with apps you already own? For example I have the office 08' suite and VMware 3 installed on my mac. Will this sync up with my itunes account or will I have to buy them again from the app store so they're in my account? Would be very impressed if apple did this, stops the worry of losing or damaging the discs, not to mention licence keys.
Adobe...so sorry
What a great idea, you don't always needed everything in those bundles... are you listening Adobe? I'm tired of paying for your over priced suites.
What a great idea, you don't always needed everything in those bundles... are you listening Adobe? I'm tired of paying for your over priced suites.
Not that I'd ever use iWeb (I hate wysiwygs) but do we know for a fact that it (as well as iDVD) werent updated? Just because it wasnt demoed, doesnt mean anything.
This is awesome. I haven't upgraded iLife at all. I got '06 and haven't looked back. I would absolutely love he ability to upgrade iPhoto though.
Places and Faces are going to be schweet.
I think they will certainly keep the boxed versions for now to sell in their retail stores and distributors. I wonder if we will eventually see a 'download area' in the retail stores where you can buy app's for those who don't have fast broadband. Maybe make it part of the One to One service. In my local AppleStore they don't have much of a selection of boxed software anyway.
Likely Mac Apps will have similar Terms that exist for the iTunes Apps, which an be installed on up to 5 devices. With this limitation, somebody would not be able to buy iLife '11 and give it out to 30 friends. Might actually result in more profit for the developer.
I agree; I've decided that I'll likely hold off on upgrading to iLife '11 or the latest iWork until the app store becomes available so I can take advantage of its software management capabilities.
They better price these Adobe Apps at $.99 or $1.99 if they come to the App Store. I refuse to pay high prices for Apps! It's an absolute rip-off!!!
Okay, enough of this. Let me get back to my $5 cup of coffee.
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Yeah, it was sarcasm. I am making fun of the 99 cent race to the bottom that's taken over the existing iOS App Store. I hope the same thing doesn't happen to the OS X App Store. That trend has weeded out a lot of decent developers.
When people complain about "Crap Apps" they should realize that at 99 cents (like < 50 cents after Apple's take & Tax) you get what you pay for. If App prices were the same as Mac OS X or Windows software you'd be paying $30 at the low end and a few hundred for high end Apps.
Let's hope that in opening up this new distribution channel, prices stabilize somewhere between the two extremes.
That would be nice. I'm not really looking at any of the new iLife software as a compelling purchase but if I did need to edit video then perhaps a standalone version of iMovie '11 would be useful. While I do a lot of photo editing, I do via Aperture 3 so iPhoto is really sod all use to me, although I might consider updating to the new version of iPhoto for my wife, if she wants.
I'll just buy the CD version. I like having hard copies of my applications and updates. Having the ability to work Web-free if needed is important to me.
iPhoto works great for showing jpeg versions of my finished photos on both desktop and laptop. As soon as they get the calendar issue fixed I'm ready to go. The quality of last year's calendars that I ordered from Apple was spectacular.
I've learned since SL that the first version of new Apple software tends to, like with new machines, have issues. Once the community reports that iLife 11 is working great I'll upgrade. I don't want another Aperture 3 experience.
iPhoto works great for showing jpeg versions of my finished photos on both desktop and laptop. As soon as they get the calendar issue fixed I'm ready to go. The quality of last year's calendars that I ordered from Apple was spectacular.
I've learned since SL that the first version of new Apple software tends to, like with new machines, have issues. Once the community reports that iLife 11 is working great I'll upgrade. I don't want another Aperture 3 experience.
That would be great! I'd love to upgrade my Garage Band, but not at $49-79. I don't really use iMovie, iDVD, iWeb or much of iPhoto. Ala carte -- I'm all for it!
Modular apps conserve memory
As several have noted, modularizing iLife allows customers to only install the components they are actually using. This will be very important for the new MBAs that have 128GB or 64GB of disk space.
I'd also guess that retail boxes for apps will start to disappear. The MBAs don't have optical drives; new MB and MBP models may exclude them, too. Not much point of a retail box if apps will be downloaded from the cloud.
As several have noted, modularizing iLife allows customers to only install the components they are actually using. This will be very important for the new MBAs that have 128GB or 64GB of disk space.
I'd also guess that retail boxes for apps will start to disappear. The MBAs don't have optical drives; new MB and MBP models may exclude them, too. Not much point of a retail box if apps will be downloaded from the cloud.
Saw this in the screenshot of the AppStore from the presentation, and decided immediately it would be worth waiting for its inception to get just iPhoto, the only paid iLife app I've ever gone near.
Thats too simple! They at least need a student edition, a business edition, and a signature edition for each of those!