Apple pulls Aperture, iWork trials from website
updated 10:40 am EDT, Mon April 16, 2012
Pushes users to Mac App Store
Apple has removed trial versions of Aperture and the iWork suite from its website, reports observe. In both cases, users are now being asked to visit the Mac App Store and pay for full products. "The trial version of iWork is no longer supported. But you can easily purchase Keynote, Pages, and Numbers from the Mac App Store to start creating beautiful presentations, documents, and spreadsheets today," the US iWork page reads.
Aperture 3 is $80, and the three iWork apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) are $20 each. Some international versions of the Apple website -- such as the Italian one -- may still have trial pages up, but the downloads may fail and still bring visitors back to a page about buying at the Mac App Store. With the trials gone, there is no longer a way of testing the apps without paying first.
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Indication of update
Given how long in the tooth iWork suite is, hopefully this is a signal that a new version is imminent. Clearly Apple software is all going Mac App Store only, so a downloadable trial is not part of the picture.
Speaking of pictures, Aperture 4 would be good as LR4 and others seem to be ahead on RAW processing engines, working with layers and selective adjustments, etc.