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Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions
tlhIngan writes "One aspect about the new OS X Mavericks release was that all Apple produced software was to be downloadable and updatable through the Mac App Store. However, this raises the obvious question: what happens to users who bought the software beforehand? Initial reports showed that the Mac App Store scanned your hard drive for software and offered to associate it with your Apple ID. The scans even found trial and pirated versions and upgraded those to fully-licensed versions. Even more interestingly, this is not a bug, and it appears Apple is turning a blind eye to the practice, giving away copies of iLife, iWork and Aperture to users who own trial or even pirated versions of the apps. Apple has also recently stopped providing downloadable trial versions of iLife, iWork and Aperture from their web site."
Did it ask you first? I find it terribly annoying and unfriendly to have it silently upgrade your software. Bugs get introduced this way some times, or you get highly undesirable features (I've stopped the firefox update, and just click cancel every single day, because the next release has a do-not-want feature).
What about the fact that you're now required to use the Apple store, which means you're required to register an account with them? This is snooping, which all the itunes slaves may not care about but it's highly intrusive. Luckily you can still get third party software from outside their garden.