i have the pages app on my iPad. Do I need to purchase it again for my new mac mini?

Yes. Different apps, different purchases. Use the AppStore on your mini.

Yes. They are separate software and a separate purchase. Once you have purchased them on both devices you can install them on others, using the same Apple I.D., for no extra charge.

Peter

They should not make you re-buy everything 2x and 3x on one account?!?! This fact makes me want to return my mac book pro and go back to pc. Very disapointing.

Nobody said that, in fact we said the opposite.

You just have to buy one for iOS and one for the Mac, that's all, they are not identical.

Peter

Just think it is terible if I have to go buy pages on my ipad and then go buy pages on mac again. I have one apple accound and should only haveto buy pages once not 2x or 3x.

As Peter said: Pages on the iPad and on the Mac is not the same appliction. It seem the same but they have different programming for two different systems.

Why are you buying it a 3rd time for?

Belight Software was forced to slash its App Store price for Swift Publishing to match Pages' price and they have no iOS version to match.

iStudio Publisher costs $29.99 for a single user licence and also has no iOS version. Multiple user licences rapidly escalate to $89.99 for 5. Apple really has no limit.

ReadySetGo is $175 for one licence.

iCalamus is $179 for one licence.

MLayout is $399 for one licence.

RagTime the only other DTP application to also have spreadsheets costs $650 for one licence.

None of these have iOS versions.

Pages is dirt cheap and you are still complaining!

I suppose if Apple had increased the price to other similar software prices and given you a "free" iPad version you would have been deliriously happy at the "bargain". A ploy used by late night tele-advertisers to suck in the gullible with kindergarten maths skills.

Peter