{"id":966,"date":"2005-01-17T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T19:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=966"},"modified":"2005-01-17T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T19:57:41","slug":"the-ilife-05-bundle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/the-ilife-05-bundle\/","title":{"rendered":"The iLife &rsquo;05 Bundle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nIf I&rsquo;m reading things right, people who bought iLife &rsquo;04 will have to\r\npay $80 to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ilife\/\">iLife &rsquo;05<\/a>. There&rsquo;s no upgrade option, and no way to purchase individual &rsquo;05 applications. I only really use iTunes and iPhoto, and I bought &rsquo;04 almost solely for the iPhoto speed improvements. I like some of the new features in iPhoto 5, but I&rsquo;ll likely stick with version 4. As a developer, I like that Apple is no longer dumping the iApps on people for free, but I don&rsquo;t like that everything&rsquo;s all bundled together.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nI wonder if the average savvy Mac user upgrades his OS and buys the new iLife at each opportunity. Maybe he also stays current with Quicken. If he&rsquo;s going to buy that software anyway, for just $220 more he could get a Mac mini, plus the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/software.html\">bundled software<\/a>. Who knows, maybe next year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iwork\/\">iWork<\/a> will be included with the Mac mini, making its included software worth even more. (Right now the mini includes AppleWorks, which most such users already have.) Put another way: for this particular user, the marginal cost of buying a Mac is less than that of buying an iPod mini.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&rsquo;m reading things right, people who bought iLife &rsquo;04 will have to pay $80 to get iLife &rsquo;05. There&rsquo;s no upgrade option, and no way to purchase individual &rsquo;05 applications. I only really use iTunes and iPhoto, and I bought &rsquo;04 almost solely for the iPhoto speed improvements. I like some of the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}