Apple's iWork and iLife app suites free for everyone

Apple, in a surprise move in late 2013, had announced that its iWork and iLife app suites would be available for free with every new purchase of its devices. Although we were surprised at the time, we can now understand that this move by Apple was not a knee-jerk reaction, but was part of its overall policy regarding the availability of its apps.

But let's take a look at these applications and their links:

iOS

• GarageBand 
• iMovie 
• Pages 
• Keynote 
• Numbers 

macOS (OS X)

• Garage band
• iMovie 
• Pages 
• Keynote 
• Numbers 

But now these macOS and iOS apps are available for free for everyone. It's even possible for a 2011 Mac owner, for example, to now download GarageBand, iMovie, Pages, Keynote and Numbers for free.

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That was the news. Now let's decode it. In essence, Apple is not losing anything. Especially in the case of iOS. Anyway, the support for 32-bit apps is coming to an end, so, and devices older than iPhone 5s will no longer be upgraded (obviously I'm not talking about major security updates). So, few will be able to take advantage of the company's new policy, as most are already "entitled" to the "free purchase" of these apps.

Things are better on Macs, because we keep our computers for many years longer than we keep our phones. There are more than a few cases of pre-2013 Mac owners who will now be able to download these apps, whereas before they couldn't.

Here we should note that there was always a way to get around this Apple restriction on Mac computers, but now there is no need to do so.

In summary, the free availability of these applications for iOS and macOS does not cost Apple anything and at the same time the company improves its "profile". Winning? Consumers.

by Kostthem