Just to clarify, this applies to the following products:
iMovie (for creating movies)
Garage Band (for recording/producing music)
Pages (word processing, similar to Microsoft Word)
Numbers (spreadsheet program, similar to Microsoft Excel)
Keynote (slideshow presentation tool, similar to Microsoft Powerpoint)
For newer iOS and Macs, these programs have been free for over three
years. If you purchased a Mac or iOS device before September of 2013,
the apps were not free but were certainly affordable. As an example,
Pages for the Mac could be purchased for $19.99, which was still quite a
bargain. Earlier this week, Apple announced that these apps are now free
even for people with older hardware. Here's an announcement about it
from the Verge.
theverge.com
Apple’s GarageBand, iMovie, and iWork apps are now completely free
Chris Welch
Apple is making its GarageBand, iMovie, and iWork (Pages, Keynote, and
Numbers) apps totally free for all Mac OS and iOS customers as of today.
In late 2013, Apple began offering the software for free to anyone that
purchased a new Apple device — either a Mac or iPhone / iPad — on or
after September 1st, 2013.
Owners of older hardware who wanted to install the apps had to pay for
them. iMovie and Garageband were $4.99 for iOS, according to 9to5Mac,
and the iWork apps were each $9.99. Some of their desktop Mac
counterparts were more expensive; iMovie was $14.99 and Pages, Numbers,
and Keynote were the priciest at $19.99 each.
iLife 2013 Update
Apple’s Eddy Cue at a 2013 event. Previously, these apps were only
“free” with a recent Apple hardware purchase.
But now, no one has to pay anything to use these apps anymore. Some of
them — GarageBand in particular — remain killer apps for iOS with no
direct Android competitor. (Google has said that it plans to include new
APIs and features focused on musicians in Android O.) Some are great,
others are okay, but none of them are really bad, so they’re definitely
worth trying if you somehow haven’t yet.
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