Update: Aperture users are reporting that the trial version of that app also allows a full upgrade for free. Since the apps use the same identifier whether activated or not, the App Store has no way to determine if the trial has been activated. Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. This update is recommended for users of iWork 9.0 and later. iWork 09 Platform: MAC Disc Part Number: MB942Z/A iWork, Apples office productivity suite, is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations the Mac way. It’s unlikely that Apple can even fix the issue, since the trial versions of old iWork apps are identical to the retail copies (but require a serial number to activate). Download iWork Update 9.3 adds support for iWork for iOS 1.7 apps. This bug allows those users to circumvent that process. While the suite is free with the purchase of a new Mac, users on older machines who have never purchased any version of iWork in the past must pay the full price for each app.
This allows users to install yesterday’s updated apps without having to pay anything. iWork ’09 requires Mac OS® X version 10.4.11 or Mac OS X version 10.5.6 or later, a Macintosh® computer with an Intel processor, PowerPC G5, or 500 MHz or faster PowerPC G4, 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended), 32MB of video RAM, QuickTime® 7.5.5 or later, a DVD drive for installation and 1.2GB of available disk space. Since the Mac App Store now detects boxed copies of iWork and allows them to be updated to the Mac App Store version, it seems the trial versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are perceived by the App Store as being a full purchased copy. Users who have previously downloaded the free 30-day iWork trial and kept it on their systems found themselves able to update to the latest version of Apple’s productivity suite for free yesterday due to what is apparently a bug with the way the store finds copies of the software purchased through other sources.
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