“Both can also be purchased along with the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard upgrade in a $169 box set for a single user, or $229 family pack,” Hughes reports. “Volume increases for iWork and iLife do not include the bundle pack sales.”
Hughes reports, “In addition, the single-user license box sets for iWork have been a big seller for Apple. iWork and iLife are available separately with a $79 single user license for each, or a $99 family pack that can be installed on up to five computers.”
More info in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Must be all those plugs that MDN gave it whenever the horrors of MS office are mentioned…
Give me an integrated mail service, similar to entourage, and my last MS product is gone!!
Love Page and Numbers!!
It’s cause Apple discounts iWork $30 when you buy it with a new Mac.
mobileme
iWork all the way. Apple style that is.
iWork 09: The most easiest to use office suite, only from Apple
Great prices and value with Apple software.
It takes a long time for a big ship to turn around, but Microsoft’s day is done as surely as the sun rises and sets. Every year from now on, fewer and fewer people will settle for Microsoft products in the mistaken belief that they have no other choice. In reality, Microsoft is to computing what AOL was to the internet: a ubiquitous but clearly inferior alternative that succeeded only by throwing itself into the faces of customers who were too ignorant to realize that they have better options.
Let’s see…
From M$:
“To run Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, your computer must meet the following requirements: 2.3 GB of available hard disk space”
From Apple:
“iWork System Requirements: 1.2GB of available disk space”
Which one suffers from severe bloat? Why, M$ needs a really big dose of Beano®!
I still think the apps in iWork should be part of iLife.
The name iLife alone stands for everything. All you’ll ever need. And it should be included with every Mac. All those apps together alone will be the best value ever in a computer that no other PC maker can match.
What are the actual numbers sold? 50% only tells me how much sales have improved.
Yet, nobody has even hinted at an iLife ’10 or iWork ’10 ! ! ! Will we be skipping a year? Again? I’d be satisfied if they settled on a release of either for Windows. Not so much to support that platform so much as to give those poor souls a look at the Other Side.
Well I bought iWork 08.
When I got to 20 rows in Numbers, I wanted to freeze the header row so I could see what my columns were as the page scrolled down.
There is no such feature. Apparently they added it in 09.
So maybe I should join this statistic, by spending $79 to be able to enter more than 20 rows in a spreadsheet.
I’ve been saying it for years: Apple needs to give away iWork with every new Mac like they do iLife. You’ll have many more repeat buyers of it.
@DLMeyer,
My guess is no. I think they’ll want to get out a version that’s optimized for Snow Leopard.
Hey PXT,
You can add thousands of rows in iWork ’08, drag down the spreadsheet handle. Your comment about locking title rows is correct, it isn’t in iWork ’08, it is in iWork ’09. Yes, I missed not having them in iWork ’08 as well.
Let’s put that $79 in perspective: Bubba Jones is an extreme tightwad however, over the past year most likely I urinated away $79; what I eat gets deposited. Also, at the time the cost of iWork was a tank of gas. My big pickup gets thirsty, gosh-darn I burned up that much money.
iWork is a fairly new product, two-ish years young, new features will be added. Recall the first version of MS Excel came out in 1985 for the Mac, and a version for a PC in 1987.
@hotinplaya
Agreed!!!!
I’ve searched high and low. There’s nothing out there for the Mac that integrates Address Book, iCal and Mail.
It’s so unbelievably frustrating, particularly as I know why Apple won’t go there.
I’d give anything for Apple (or anyone!!) to make an entourage killer.
Nobama,
Why do u think Apple won’t create that integrated product? Don’t want to piss off Mafia$oft?
Nobama,
I’ve always wondered…why is it that Apple won’t go there? I agree, it’s frustrating. Entourage is the only MS product I still use regularly. I fully adopted Pages and Keynote over Word and PPT this past year with iWork 09.
Cubert, I’m not sure there would be a whole lot of benefit to optimizing iWork or iLife for “Snow Leopard”, but to optimize it for Intel? It would make my son somewhat unhappy – as the owner of several G5 boxes – but might possibly help my wife and me. It would also sell to a larger market – many Intel Mac users are still running Leopard, 10.5!
Still … what would be the point? How many large documents are manipulated by Pages, Numbers or Keynote? My wife’s plays, even the full-length plays, would not qualify. Let’s be clear, 64 bits are only useful for Enterprise-level problems. Databases and Spreadsheets. iWork (dammit!) does not contain a Database.
Gotta go and a) pour me a single-malt and b) find out what’s going on with Rash Limburger.
Over the years I have bought 3 versions of iWork.
Pardon me for being somewhat p****d off by the quick succession of iWork versions (a good thing) with NO discount for upgrading.
I loved the drawing module in AppleWorks, yet the concept of a standalone drawing has been given up in iWork, which makes vector graphics much less accessible than before. The functionality is there (and may have improved), but the usability is down. (Cfr. usability of the GIMP vs. PhotoShop).
Another thing I am missing (from Numbers, this time) is the possibility to *transpose* a 2D subtable. This functionality is present in most other products. I have to use NeoOffice as an intermediary to transpose subtables (losing a number of attributes in the process of copying/pasting back and forth).
@vanfruniken
Just forgot my punch line:
As long as the above mentioned much lacking capabilities in iWork are still missing and/or upgrade discounts remain unexistant, I won’t be buying into a new version. Duh!
I have to admit, numbers is lacking a lot of statistical functions for me to get out of Excel.
Otherwise I primarily use pages and keynote for everything else.