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No upgrade for iLife

A question posted over at MacSlash brought up a great point about iLife that's worth revisiting with this new release: it doesn't have an upgrade price/option, and never has. The question at MacSlash comes from a reader who purchase iLife '05 on Dec. 26th 2005, barely three weeks before his Steveness dropped the iLife '06 bomb.

What do you readers think of this? iLife, in my opinion, is already a steal at $79 (especially since it blows away Windows suites that retail for hundreds of dollars), and it's obvious that Apple is basically letting go of iLife at a loss with new Macs to entice new customers and switchers. Still, I can understand the sting this user must feel, now that his $79 purchase just became last year's software, so to speak. So what say you, readers? Should Apple offer an iLife upgrade?