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It should be emphasized that they've ignored iWorks for a long time.....it's hard to trust that it won't regress again after the renewed emphasis. If they had

It should be emphasized that they've ignored iWorks for a long time.....it's hard to trust that it won't regress again after the renewed emphasis. If they had spent the last decade making iWorks a replacement for Office (making it handle Excel, for example), they would be in a really good place right now. Instead, it's hard to take them seriously.

lallysingh 10y ago
Of course they will. iWorks isn't in their primary wheelhouse, so it'll have an on-again off-again lifecycle.
20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
You're being silly. They have spent the past decade making iWorks better, and in fact, the whole app was revamped from the ground up about 2 years ago, to bring perfect compatibility across platforms from mac to ios. It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI.
- ktRolster 10y ago
  It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. No. Again, if they had stopped playing around with the UI, stopped playing with file-formats in a way that breaks backwards compatibility, and instead focused on making the product more useful than Office (especially focusing on making Numbers a viable product), they would be in a good spot now.
- pawadu 10y ago
  > It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI. None of the points you made are true. Granted things like UI can be very objective, but how someone can with a straight face say Excel is uglier than Numbers (have you seen those awful randomly colored icons?) is beyond me.

lallysingh 10y ago

Of course they will. iWorks isn't in their primary wheelhouse, so it'll have an on-again off-again lifecycle.

20yrs_no_equity 10y ago

You're being silly. They have spent the past decade making iWorks better, and in fact, the whole app was revamped from the ground up about 2 years ago, to bring perfect compatibility across platforms from mac to ios. It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI.

ktRolster 10y ago
It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. No. Again, if they had stopped playing around with the UI, stopped playing with file-formats in a way that breaks backwards compatibility, and instead focused on making the product more useful than Office (especially focusing on making Numbers a viable product), they would be in a good spot now.
pawadu 10y ago
> It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI. None of the points you made are true. Granted things like UI can be very objective, but how someone can with a straight face say Excel is uglier than Numbers (have you seen those awful randomly colored icons?) is beyond me.