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Wow ClarisWorks. That’s a throw back. That was around the time of Quark Express I think? Pops was a graphic designer so got to grow up with that evolution and

• chipotle_coyote 5y ago
  That sounds right. AppleWorks became ClarisWorks, then (I think!) became AppleWorks again for a while. Meanwhile, the folks at Claris left to create Gobe, and improved on the idea with Gobe Productive. Then, much later, they came back to Apple and worked on iWorks (Numbers, Keynote, Pages) -- which aren't the same as ClarisWorks or Productive, both of which were standalone monolithic apps (if I'm remembering right), but there's definitely a visible lineage. The iWorks apps are better than they're often given credit for, as was Productive. There are still competing programs existing in the margins -- iWorks is obviously still around, and there are some other word processing apps hanging in: Nisus Writer for the Mac and Nota Bene for Windows have both managed to persist since the 1980s, although they're both pretty different programs than they were then. And Adobe definitely has competitors in indie shareware these days, like the Affinity applications. (And of course there's open source competitors like LibreOffice, GIMP, etc.) (Oh, and QuarkXpress is still around!)