iLife 2010 coming in time for back-to-school?
A reader sent us a link to an iLife '10 for Dummies book on Amazon France. The book is set for release on September 23rd, suggesting an updated iLife software release on or around that date. A Google translation of the book's description doesn't mention any new apps or features and the book's cover clearly lists the five current iLife apps. For now we are posting this for interest's sake only. While For Dummies is one of the largest how-to publishers in the world, it's not clear if Apple would give them access to pre-release versions of iLife software in order to release a book around the same time the software is released.
iLife was last updated over 17 months ago in January 2009. For years a new iLife release was something you could count on at the beginning of the year, but with Apple abandoning Macworld future release dates seem to be up in the air. One thing that does make sense if the iLife '10 for Dummies book is real, is that Apple would start targeting an iLife update in time for back-to-school sales to give added value to those students buying a new Mac.
Thanks to reader DA360 for the find.
UPDATE: The cover and title has been pulled from Amazon France.
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Why not just ask @tonybove on twitter if the book is a misprint to try to get a comment from the other side of the news?
July 20 2010 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythere is just one odd here. Apple does their 'back to school' from May to August (wrapping like the first week of Sept at the latest) so wouldn't an ilife or iwork timed for 'back to school' be released in May when the students buying computers kicks up. Not in Sept when the big promo push with the ipods (and thus 95% of the buying) is over.
It's not to say that they might not do some kind of late summer update of ilife/iwork/pro apps etc but it's not linked to the students most likely and perhaps to something else. In fact ilife with the home movie editing, holiday printing etc seems like it would go great with an update of the 'family friendly' imac series just in time for the holidays.
iLife '08 came out in august, so it wouldn't be unprecedented.
July 20 2010 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis could also be a poorly named book to indicate the year it's released in, but not necessarily software version.
July 20 2010 at 2:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's sort of what I was thinking. Seems very unlikely that the publishers would get the software ahead of time. It could also be a mockup/placeholder situation.
July 20 2010 at 2:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMight as well just call it '11 at this point...
July 20 2010 at 1:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply2010, 2011...what's the difference? :-)
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