A month ago, during the Apple special event, there was an
announcement confirming that Apple’s iLife and iWork suite of apps will be
available for free for new iOS customers. The apps list include iPhoto, Pages,
Numbers, Keynote and iMovie.
Adding to the list is Apple’s music creation app,
Garageband. Garageband - part of Apple's free iLife apps. As reported by Macrumors, Apple has updated its Apple apps
section on their site, bringing in Garageband and new iOS 7-optimised icons for
the suite apps. The information is supposedly removed now, but it looked like
the image above.
Garageband costs 4.99$ currently. The app will be available
as a free download, with extra instruments and sounds as an in-app purchase.
It’s a wonderful app letting you play music using ‘touch instruments’, like
Pianos, Guitars, Basses, Drums and more.
This is a great news for customers, but not so much for app
developers. Because Apple is indirectly feeding free stuff to its customers. It’s a hard time for developers to make big bucks from their apps.
Apple should be releasing the app updates tomorrow, as part
of its event at San Francisco – along with new iPad mini, Mac Pro, MacBook
Pros, Mavericks (lots of Mac stuff this time!) and more.