MacRumors points out that Apple may be planning to sell applications in the iLife suite individually once the Mac App Store goes live in a few months time. The evidence for this claim comes from Apple’s own promotional materials, and even a demo from Wednesday’s “Back to the Mac” event.
Based on the screen shots of the store, it appears Apple also plans to offer the apps in their iWork suit individually as well. Plus, Apple gave a demo Pages (one of the apps included in iWork) being purchased from the store at the media event yesterday. Currently, the promotional material shows that each iWork app will sell at $19.99 a piece, which is below the current price of $79 for the bundle. Each of the iLife apps appear to be priced at $14.99 a piece. There is no indication at this time that the apps will be offered in a bundled download in addition to the individual downloads.
Lastly, applications purchased in the Mac App Store will be licensed for use on all of an individual’s personal computers. This seems to be a middle ground between purchasing a single user license or the family packs that Apple ships their iLife and iWork suits in.
I personally can’t wait to see how this all works out. I think we’ll see Mac software sales surge, but Apple will have to draw attention, both developer and consumer, to the Store.
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