I would very much interested to read the comments that would be posted here, if Apple did a similar thing. I am sure everybody would be very positive and happy..
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I wonder how many folk downloaded office not knowing they require a subscription for them to be useful.
DropBox is still better. It syncs OS X file metadata with no issues. OneDrive can't do that.
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Microsoft? Had no idea they were still in business.
Well then, based on that we can only assume that you are out of touch, ignorant of technology in general, and that your opinions are pretty much irrelevant..
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Yes and elegant, delicious, gorgeous, and game changing.
That's what makes MR special, I'd bet most of the people posting on here do not even know the details of the app, or have not even tried it. As soon as they see its not by Apple, they mock it.
There are a quite few good posters that are objective one here. Just ignore the ones spreading FUD.
Why are they also on the top grossing then? That's just the subscriptions through the app store as well, how many people have bought subscriptions from third parties? Good thing you read the whole article...
Then you would be the example of someone who would have to stick with MS Office until no one else is using it (which will happen at some point, as nothing on this planet lasts forever).
A few years ago, Blackberry was king in the mobile data arena. It gave employees access to their office 24/7 and allowed the office to monitor exactly what the employee was doing. But then in 2007 Apple released the iPhone, at first it had very limited enterprise connectivity, but was a better phone in a lot of other ways. Then by the time the 3G came out, Apple had added Exchange email support, which meant for a lot of people it could be used instead of the BB.
This meant that a lot of people were bringing their personal phones into work and wanted to hook them up to email etc. Now this wasn't just the average employees doing this which most IT managers would have ignored, but the directors and managers as well. So despite the initial lack of control you had over iPhones (and Android) compared to BB, they very quickly took over the business sector. To the point where it is now very rare for me to get a call saying that someone whats to use BBs in their business (I work in IT).
Now the point I am making is that something similar could happen with MS Office, it won't happen over night, but there may be a time coming when you ether need 2 Office programs on your computer to remain compatible with your clients, or MS Office will have to have a more open/compatible format (like BB now being able to run Android apps). I am already seeing Google Docs making in roads with some of my clients who don't need the hardcore features like Pivot Tables that Excel provides, for example.
The majority of the business world agrees with you. Almost every major corporation uses Pages due to it's superiority to Word.
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Wait until Apple starts subscription based software, then it will be the greatest invention since the wheel.
The quality of iTunes 1080p downloads is just fine for 99.99% of the general public, including myself. It's a very very small fraction of people who watch it and think it's poor quality - A/V geeks. In addition, nobody in my family gives each other movies for Christmas. In fact, I told my family *not* to give me spinning discs with music or movies on them a long time ago.
Lastly, your attempt at drawing an analogy between paintings and video screens is non-sensical and doesn't work.
P.S. What makes you think girlfriend and not boyfriend?
This is a sober reality to the new world.
The public was quick to embrace streaming and downloads, etc and now we have this- subscription based products.
We no longer own the privilege to own.
IMO- this is only the beginning.
I'm stating the obvious:
In a few years any useful app will be tied to recurring fees per subscription requirement.
$9.99 a month...that adds up.
It makes sense from a business sense. Why let buyer pay once to flat out own the product when we can rent them the product and keep charging?
I'm still using Word for Mac 2004.
Bought on disc. Does all I need. No upgrade required.
If I was paying $99 a year- do the math.
The public was quick to embrace streaming and downloads, etc and now we have this- subscription based products.
We no longer own the privilege to own.
IMO- this is only the beginning.
I'm stating the obvious:
In a few years any useful app will be tied to recurring fees per subscription requirement.
$9.99 a month...that adds up.
It makes sense from a business sense. Why let buyer pay once to flat out own the product when we can rent them the product and keep charging?
I'm still using Word for Mac 2004.
Bought on disc. Does all I need. No upgrade required.
If I was paying $99 a year- do the math.
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The single user license if perfect for a lot of people. The subscription license makes sense for others.
Of course it did - .ppt is PowerPoint's native format.
Try opening a Keynote file in PowerPoint.
What, you mean Mac owners don't have 27 cents a day after buying their computers, to run THE most wildly used standard suite of business productivity software in the world on up to five different machines?
Makes me laugh all these Mac owners who LOVE to pay more to get the feeling of, well I can afford this, I bet you wish you could also, are now so skint that 27 cents is going to bankrupt them.
I have Mac:Office 2011. I can install it on five Macs if I want to without paying a subscription. Why do I need to pay $99 a year?
Free makes the most sense for everybody
If only we could have our cake and eat it too, huh?
When did Apple offer a bundle? MobileMe was not a software bundle, just a cloud service for your existing software.
Installed it, opened it, saw "Some features are not available"..
Deleted it.
Up yours Microsoft...
Deleted it.
Up yours Microsoft...
Except that a single user wouldn't upgrade anyway since the new versions are the same thing except maybe with GUI changes.
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But I already have Office '08 on my PC.
This is like BYOD in reverse, I have no interest in it but work might be moving to 365 which means I'll be able to use Office for iPad.
I honestly think that's a great thing, this is much needed competition in this space and that's only a good thing for us consumers!
I honestly think that's a great thing, this is much needed competition in this space and that's only a good thing for us consumers!
