Marco Arment
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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?
And C, their competition is free.
It's Google Apps.
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.
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.
Some of them do well.
Some of them are laughingstocks.
Some of them are ignored.
Some of them get frequent updates.