iLife '07
Sorry if I'm duplicating, but do we have any idea if/when there will be an iLife '07? I know after Macworld that the consensus was that it required Leopard, hence the wait. Any ideas what features will make this delay necessary, or will it simply be the slick application of a new interface, as rumoured in the new OS? And might this be a more substantial upgrade than in times past given the extra time given to the development team?
Finally, a real bug bear of mine - I know I keep mentioning it, any hope that .Mac or sync will enable us to keep our music and phot libraries (as well as documents folder?) synced on all the machines we own? Macbook and iMac here. I'm by no means an advanced or intensive user, but it strikes me as the most obviously useful, sensible and basic kind of sync that it amazes me that Apple hasn't implemented it.
Finally, a real bug bear of mine - I know I keep mentioning it, any hope that .Mac or sync will enable us to keep our music and phot libraries (as well as documents folder?) synced on all the machines we own? Macbook and iMac here. I'm by no means an advanced or intensive user, but it strikes me as the most obviously useful, sensible and basic kind of sync that it amazes me that Apple hasn't implemented it.
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The reasoning behind it:
- Steve already said one Leopard feature is, that it will be "a complete package" but added BootCamp and FrontRow - not so exciting, iLife would be it
- sooner or later making an iLife upgrade worth 79$ will become tedious. I'm not saying it is, yet, but Apple might want to rest on the upgrade path for a year or two if the competition is not stirring and allow itself to put all the fokus on other apps for the next OS X release
- Vista has the DVD maker, Photo and Movie management bundled. By rolling iLife in, they can emphasize how much better Leopard is in every aspect of the system.
- Pricing can go to 199,- for Leopard with integrated iLife. The steep pricing of Vista will make that look a bargain in all the upcoming newspaper comparisons, especially since they have to pit it against 400$ Vista Ultimate to match Leopard's features.
The overall message will be:
- Leopard from Apple is out
- it's 199$
- it's better than Vista in all respects
- you can't buy it because you still have a PC, while all the cool people already switched to a Mac and enjoy it
- it is free with a new Mac (wink wink)
What-do-ya-think?
Want to hire me at your marketing department?
- Leopard from Apple is out
- it's 199$
- it's better than Vista in all respects
- you can't buy it because you still have a PC, while all the cool people already switched to a Mac and enjoy it
- it is free with a new Mac (wink wink)
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I think they will roll iLife into Leopard.
The overall message will be:
- Leopard from Apple is out
- it's 199$
- it's better than Vista in all respects
- you can't buy it because you still have a PC, while all the cool people already switched to a Mac and enjoy it
- it is free with a new Mac (wink wink)
You know, now that Vista includes it own low-rent version of iLife, and considering that iLife '07 would be the perfect candidate to utilize CoreAnimation.... I could see this as a real possibility.
Apple would just love a reason to up the price of OS X, especially if Leopard is going to be as much of a leap forward as many have been anticipating.
If they do this, I wonder if it might be closer to $179, though... more in line with the Vista Home Premium upgrade.
I think they will roll iLife into Leopard.
The reasoning behind it:
- Steve already said one Leopard feature is, that it will be "a complete package" but added BootCamp and FrontRow - not so exciting, iLife would be it
- sooner or later making an iLife upgrade worth 79$ will become tedious. I'm not saying it is, yet, but Apple might want to rest on the upgrade path for a year or two if the competition is not stirring and allow itself to put all the fokus on other apps for the next OS X release
- Vista has the DVD maker, Photo and Movie management bundled. By rolling iLife in, they can emphasize how much better Leopard is in every aspect of the system.
- Pricing can go to 199,- for Leopard with integrated iLife. The steep pricing of Vista will make that look a bargain in all the upcoming newspaper comparisons, especially since they have to pit it against 400$ Vista Ultimate to match Leopard's features.
The overall message will be:
- Leopard from Apple is out
- it's 199$
- it's better than Vista in all respects
- you can't buy it because you still have a PC, while all the cool people already switched to a Mac and enjoy it
- it is free with a new Mac (wink wink)
What-do-ya-think?
Want to hire me at your marketing department?
Couldn't agree more. The whole $79 euro a year thing is stupid IMO. They should make Leopard $149 and throw in both iLife '07 and iWork '07. Then IMO Steve would be justified in calling it the complete package. If they upgrade iWork considerably and add a spreadsheet Application the whole thing would just make sense. At that price their wouldn't be a Mac user in the world that wouldn't want to upgrade. And it truly would just work right out of the box. This would be the cleverest move Apple could ever make (ever) if they did this. They could even say, if you switch to a Mac you don't even need Office to do all those things you do at home like print letters etc. etc. Plus if Apple is thinking about including Core Animation into Keynote, maybe they will do the same to all thier other apps too, like Pages and all the iLife apps. I would even go so far as to say they shouldn't offer iLife '07 or iWork '07 as a seperate product at all. They shold bundle all this stuff with their OS's from here on in.
Here's there new catch-phrase;
"For $149 you are launched into the future, and you can do everything right out of the box."
I don't think they will raise the price of OS X, even when they bundle in iLife. They have a lot of momentum and this would keep it going. Their pricing scheme on the OS needs to be aggressive in regards to the pricing scams in Vista.
I don't think they make crap from selling iWork so I am really hoping they throw that in...but I doubt it. iLife, all the way in.
Here's there new catch-phrase;
"For $149 you are launched into the future, and you can do everything right out of the box."
Part of being a "catch-phrase" is actually being "catchy".