It’s actually $60 to have them on your Mac. They used to give a discount if you bought them at the same time as your Mac. Even so, $90 for full fledged office suite of your laptop, iPad, and iphone.
And it does include an email client and a note taking app.
They’ll be announced when Intel starts releasing chipsets with Thunderbolt 2 baked in.
Apple likes to make their newly announced computers available the same day they are announced (Mac Pro notwithstanding) and I really don’t think that they will do that until they can say “Thunderbolt 2” somewhere in the announcement.
Transformers will open next month. Towards the end of the month will be the official grand opening. Soft open will start soon. Within the next week or so.