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Apple To Charge for Some iApps
randomErr writes "News.com has this story that according to sources familiar with the plans, Apple is expected to announce at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco Tuesday that consumers will have to pay for new versions of iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie. Previously, Apple had offered upgrades to its digital media, or 'i' applications, for free."
The prevailing rumor is that the asking price will be around $50 for iDVD, iMovie, and iPhoto together.
In other news, Apple is rumored to make an announcement about 802.11g.
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Quicktime is still free. If you want to use it to develop content and convert media, you pay for Quicktime Pro. It's a fairly good deal for what you get.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
"iTunes now, that *is* worth paying for - well assuming they make enough of an improvement over the already excellent iTunes3 (I'm struggling to think of what they could improve to be honest)."
Steve Jobs in a demo showed Rendezvous technology. iTunes will be able to stream to other computers. Your playlist will load other playlists from other machines, and play, even over Airport. Sweet, but I don't know if I'd pay that much money for the extra feature.
iDVD will come preinstalled. you just have to pay for an upgrade. And iDVD only works on machines with factory-installed DVD burners
Really?
I wonder...my friend bought an iMac. iDVD and iMovie are worth the price alone...pity that yet another price will be foisted on him come upgrade time.
What really reached out and grabbed me was the fact that the iMac DOESN'T SHIP WITH A FULL VERSION OF QUICKTIME!! You still get the 'gripe' screen when you try to play a file. Sad. Pathetic. Cheap.
I LIKE the iMac. But that really turned me off.
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Seems to me from MacWorld's of the past, once cnet tells the story, everyone else agrees.
http://macnn.com
http://macminute.com
http://thinksecret.com
even google news has it top of their tech page
http://news.google.com/news/gntechnologyleftnav.h
I hate spyware and spies
Yes it was. And if Apple had kept bundeling write, paint, and (and after buying the right) jazz as well as updating them:
1) Apple wouldn't have to worry about Microsoft because office wouldn't have been a big deal.
2) Many of the people who switched away from Apple wouldn't because of file format lock in.
3) Every magazine article when doing comparisons could compare the price of x86 box + windows + office to the price of the mac.
4) Write having been a major product for 20 years would be vastly better today and Apple could make a real case in terms of features they offer.
Yeah. Quicktime is still free. It's just $29.99 to turn off the fscking nag screen.
It would be like MS making you buy Media Player
You seam to be forgetting that Quicktime Pro has hundreds of features that Media Player doesn't. QTPro isn't just a player. It arranges/edits/layers various forms of time-based media, and allows encoding and preparing of media clips in about 20-30 different audio and video formats for a variety of applications, such as streaming applications or DVD authoring. It has support for sprites, links, vector based animation for building interactive multimedia projects. Can your Media Player do this?
This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."
Apple doesn't intentionally break software with new OS versions.
You, my friend, have never bought a copy of QuickTime. I bought QT5 and when I upgraded to 10.2, surprise! QT6 Lite was installed and my full version of QT5 was no more...
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It is great to see people reacting reasonably to this.
The charging for iApps is not a new thing:
iMovie 2 cost $30.
iDVD 2 was $20 (s&h)
When OS X came out, you got iMovie 2 free with it as a reason to upgrade. iPhoto, when it came out, was also free, IF you had OS X. Then, somehow, it entered the general Mac consciousness that the iApps were always meant to be free. The truth was, they cost you whatever you paid to run OS X.
iTunes, iSync, & iCal will probably always be free. The others offer a lot more value. Now that so many people have upgraded to OS X, there is no reason for Apple to give it to them free again. I don't mind paying if that means quality upgrades. However, the whole point is that the iApps were always meant to make money, just in different ways. They will continue to serve that pupose and in different ways as time goes on.
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iMovie 2 still costs money when it's not included. If you don't have a machine that it shipped on and don't have Mac OS X, it's listed in the Apple Store for $49.99 (visit store.apple.com, search for iMovie).
In other words, they've been charging for a while. And people probably created a stink about it then too.
Advance your clock to the year 2020 or so, launch QT Player, click the cancel button, reset the clock, and it won't bother you again for 17 years. But yeah, it is obnoxious and silly.
How to solve most of our problems: 1.Lots of nuclear plants. 2.Cure aging.
Easily remedied by uninstalling QT 6 and re-installing QT 5, right?
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