Apple has been keen on making the iPad Pro a replacement for PC’s. At Apple’s keynote earlier this week, Phil Schiller highlighted that there are over 600 million units of PC’s which are at least five years old, describing that fact to be saddening. It seems that office and productivity apps are making consumers stick with their aging PC’s, and Apple is stooping themselves a little lower to allow an easier transition from a PC to an iPad Pro.
Office 365, made by Apple’s biggest rival Microsoft, is now available as an accessory when consumers order their iPad Pro’s online. The Office 365 suite includes the usual office apps Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and so on, not to mention that the subscription comes with Mac versions of those apps. The suite is offered in Personal, Home and University variants.
However, prior to that, Microsoft is already offering free versions of Office apps across the iOS platform, with the 12.9-inch iPad Pro being the exception. In the case of Microsoft Word, you can read Word documents for free on the huge tablet, but editing them will need an Office 365 subscription. Consumers with smaller iPad’s on the other hand, get to enjoy the full-fledged version of Microsoft Office apps for free, which brings us back to Apple’s new offering of the Office 365 suite – it is also offered when ordering smaller iPad’s, and it is not free.
We can see Apple’s efforts and seemingly desperate measures to get more iOS converts, but this is a rather odd move by the Cupertino giant. What do you think?
Source: Apple Shop