[cobalt]

I wouldn't exactly call office 365 that expensive. It's $100/4yrs for students (university) and $100/yr for 5 users. That's hardly expensive. (Sure if you live alone it's more expensive, but you could probably just pair up with friends/family to split the cost)

[nobodyshere]

But if I'm alone using it, that's not 5 users. That will be $100/yr for 1 user. And that appears to be expensive in general. A cracked version will come with editing capabilities, make no mistake. I'd gladly once pay a fair amount of money for a version with edit and without subscription.

[pionar]

It probably does not save on the device, besides in some sort of caching mechanism.

[webjprgm]

A cracked version of an iOS app? You must be jailbroken. Most users are not.

[nobodyshere]

Or just a re-signed ipa file if you have a developer account. I guess there are such solutions out there.

[RyanZAG]

It's expensive because it has competition that is charging less. The actual price doesn't matter that much given consumers are free to choose alternatives.

That said, $100/yr is extremely expensive in most countries in the world.

[lttlrck]

Things are "expensive" because they cost a lot of money, not that because there are cheaper alternatives.

[oneeyedpigeon]

Try telling that to the app market.

[tkmcc]

It's actually cheaper than that for students - only $80 for a 4 year subscription: http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productI...

[alistairSH]

$100/year for subscription. OR $139 one-time for Office Home.

Sure sounds expensive to me. I'll stick to the Apple office suite for now.

[Locke1689]

Sounds more expensive to me if I had to include Mac version + Windows version + iPad version + iPhone version.

Subscription just bundles everything together.