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And so I don't... But at the end of the day, these tools, if you're going to buy these in the previous arrangements, they were way more money, at least up front.

And if you were just thinking like, oh, let me try to learn, say, Final Cut or Logic or whatever, there really wasn't a good path for you to go from, I think I want to try learning this, to go between that and I'm going to spend hundreds of dollars on this.

Now there's a path for that.

That's great.

I think that is wonderful.

There are a lot of details about this that I think don't make a lot of sense.

I don't think keynote pages and numbers and free forms should be included.

Those are what I think used to be free iWork apps, and now it's like, are they?

Are they free?

And C, their competition is free.

It's Google Apps.

Yeah.

So I think there's a lot of ways this can go in the future that I think could be relatively negative or mediocre.

No one's happy to see Apple push more into services revenue.

That's not healthy for them.

It is.

But you can ask, well, why are they doing this?

And there's some good reasons and there's some cynical reasons.

We'll see how it goes over time.

So far, Apple's track record for keeping these apps updated and keeping them competitive has been kind of spotty.