Briefly: Amazon's witty discretion on iWork '07 and iLife '07
Online retailer Amazon.com is no longer listing Apple Computer's forthcoming iLife and iWork software suite upgrades on its website by name, but has alternatively drawn a chuckle or two.
The largest internet retailer on Wednesday turned up listings for four yet-to-be-announced Apple software products. Those products were iLife '07 and iWork '07, each of which was available in two versions -- a "Single User License" or a "Family Pack."
Apple, which attempts to keep a tight lid on even the most blatant of matters, appears to have disapproved.
As of Thursday evening, Amazon, rather amusingly, had renamed the four software listings to: Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #1, Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #2, Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #3, and Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #4.
Since introducing iLife at Macworld in 2003, Apple has used each consecutive Macworld to introduce new versions of the digital lifestyle suite, which includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand and iWeb applications.
In 2005, Apple unveiled iWork, a similar suite of software that includes productivity applications Pages and Keynote.
Next week's Macworld Expo is expected to play out no differently, producing updates to both iLife and iWork while possibly tossing a new spreadsheet application into the latter as well.
The largest internet retailer on Wednesday turned up listings for four yet-to-be-announced Apple software products. Those products were iLife '07 and iWork '07, each of which was available in two versions -- a "Single User License" or a "Family Pack."
Apple, which attempts to keep a tight lid on even the most blatant of matters, appears to have disapproved.
As of Thursday evening, Amazon, rather amusingly, had renamed the four software listings to: Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #1, Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #2, Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #3, and Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #4.
Since introducing iLife at Macworld in 2003, Apple has used each consecutive Macworld to introduce new versions of the digital lifestyle suite, which includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand and iWeb applications.
In 2005, Apple unveiled iWork, a similar suite of software that includes productivity applications Pages and Keynote.
Next week's Macworld Expo is expected to play out no differently, producing updates to both iLife and iWork while possibly tossing a new spreadsheet application into the latter as well.
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Next week's Macworld Expo is expected to play out no differently...
I'm willing to bet Apple bundles iWork '07 and iLife '07 into Leoaprd. People will have no choice but to upgrade, and it will also be absolutely brilliant value. So Apple wins by getting everyone on the same platform, and the customers win, by getting the deal of the millennia!!
/I hope to God I right on this one, and I hope to God Steve didn't mislead us with that "complete package" statement, cause the way I see it, without both iLife '07 and iWork '07 included he has no right calling it the complete package!
Maybe you're right, but I really doubt it. Try not to get your hopes up too high, 'k? Post-MWSF is bad enough in the emergency depression triage around here without tossing around words like 'mislead'.
As of Thursday evening, Amazon, rather amusingly, had renamed the four software listings to: Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #1, Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #2, Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #3, and Apple MacWorld 2007 Announcement #4.
4 Announcements?
It seems Amazon knows more then they were letting on...
Sebastian
I'm willing to bet Apple bundles iWork '07 and iLife '07 into Leoaprd. People will have no choice but to upgrade, and it will also be absolutely brilliant value. So Apple wins by getting everyone on the same platform, and the customers win, by getting the deal of the millennia!!
/I hope to God I right on this one, and I hope to God Steve didn't mislead us with that "complete package" statement, cause the way I see it, without both iLife '07 and iWork '07 included he has no right calling it the complete package!
If everybody thinks Apple is to release the new version of iLife/iWork during MWSF, how will they bundle it with Leopard? Do you think Leopard will be released 4 days from now?
On a side note, I personally think the iLife bundles will not be released until a bit after MWSF. Steve may demo the apps during MWSF keynote but it is looking to me like they will be shipping later on. Later on meaning more inline with the actual ship date of Leopard... and no, that doesn't mean it will be included with Leopard.
OK, iwork and ilife are two of them?
What are the other 2?
Surely they have no idea. But it is interesting nonetheless...
4? Four?
OK, iwork and ilife are two of them?
What are the other 2?
Surely they have no idea. But it is interesting nonetheless...
Not really interesting...they're for the family packs. Read the original AI article.
If everybody thinks Apple is to release the new version of iLife/iWork during MWSF, how will they bundle it with Leopard? Do you think Leopard will be released 4 days from now?
On a side note, I personally think the iLife bundles will not be released until a bit after MWSF. Steve may demo the apps during MWSF keynote but it is looking to me like they will be shipping later on. Later on meaning more inline with the actual ship date of Leopard... and no, that doesn't mean it will be included with Leopard.
I hope not. I am hoping for a few enhancements in Keynote for a Jan 19 presentation submittal deadline. There are some rumors flying around that they will make some improvements on sounds and slides. I am crossing my fingers.
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I've posted this on several forums since this Amazon announcement came out 2 days ago, and I've absolutely no one has taken notice. I think it's more newsworthy than the soon to be released iLife and iWork which we all know is coming next week.
If everybody thinks Apple is to release the new version of iLife/iWork during MWSF, how will they bundle it with Leopard? Do you think Leopard will be released 4 days from now?
On a side note, I personally think the iLife bundles will not be released until a bit after MWSF. Steve may demo the apps during MWSF keynote but it is looking to me like they will be shipping later on. Later on meaning more inline with the actual ship date of Leopard... and no, that doesn't mean it will be included with Leopard.
I suspect they will keep doing what they've been doing. They'll bundle it with new Macs. However, iWork will be a fully functional, trial version.
4? Four?
OK, iwork and ilife are two of them?
What are the other 2?
There were single and family pack listings for each, thus 4 listings total.
Steve
I hope not. I am hoping for a few enhancements in Keynote for a Jan 19 presentation submittal deadline. There are some rumors flying around that they will make some improvements on sounds and slides. I am crossing my fingers.
If history repeats itself though, you'd be better off waiting for for the .01 release following a couple of weeks after the first release as there's some glaring bug or they've forgotten some important feature - like deleting pages in Pages v1. Doh!
Hopefully I'm wrong this time though. Pages v2 and Keynote v3 have been remarkably stable for me. I'm really looking forward to a proper spreadsheet program though so I can finally pension off Excel and with that the whole of MS Office.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0701iwork.html
The screenshot looks a little basic to me. There's no function inspector or function toolbar showing so it's difficult to tell how entering functions is done. I'd guess it'd be the Apple way using an inspector rather than the Microsoft/Lotus way of having a function entryfield in the toolbar, so get ready to buy that huge screen for all the floating inspectors. That will probably annoy switchers from MS Office just as many can't get their simple little heads around inspectors, simple toolbars and drag and drop in the Word to Pages switch.
And ThinkSecret is alleging the Spreadsheet application WILL ship and includes a screenshot.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0701iwork.html
The screenshot looks a little basic to me. There's no function inspector or function toolbar showing so it's difficult to tell how entering functions is done. I'd guess it'd be the Apple way using an inspector rather than the Microsoft/Lotus way of having a function entryfield in the toolbar, so get ready to buy that huge screen for all the floating inspectors. That will probably annoy switchers from MS Office just as many can't get their simple little heads around inspectors, simple toolbars and drag and drop in the Word to Pages switch.
It's no less basic than Pages. Remember, this is a consumer oriented suite (ala Appleworks and MS Works), not a professional one like office.
But if they do go 10.5 only, then 10.5 had best be released. Otherwise MacWorld turns into a big "in a few months..." and Apple doesn't do that.
- Jasen.