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I noticed that in the update today. I've got a small upcoming project that will require about 300 mailings, but I'm reluctant to use any Apple software for thi

I noticed that in the update today. I've got a small upcoming project that will require about 300 mailings, but I'm reluctant to use any Apple software for this because, who knows how long it will be before they remove this feature again?

CharlesW 4y ago
Apple doesn't do that, really. Apple's modus operandi is to kill entire apps, and (if you're lucky) replace them with all-new apps — see Final Cut Pro X, Apple Photos, etc.
- anonymousiam 4y ago
  Did you read the article? "The feature was originally included in Apple’s word processing software, but got the axe in 2013’s version 5.0"...
  - CharlesW 4y ago
    Yes, 5.0 is the "all-new app" scenario I'm referencing. I should've spelled that out for people who didn't live through the traumatic iWork 2013 app overhaul, thank you.
  - kccqzy 4y ago
    It's safe to say that in 2013 Apple killed the existing Pages, Numbers, and Keynote app from the iWork ’09 suite and replaced them with the new ones scaled up from iOS. I still can't get over the shock that fateful 2013 day when I downloaded the new apps.
- spartanatreyu 4y ago
  I remember one update to Keynote (Apple's powerpoint) that removed the ability to replace fonts if the requested font wasn't detected on the computer. Chief officers, marketers and salespeople with macbooks aplenty, downloading 100 different fonts and creating slideshows... Only to try and send them over email/usb and have their 100+ slide presentation completely break down with every piece of text getting set to the same font with a larger than normal font-size, making text overlap the edge of the screen or other text and losing all sense of readability. Sorry, you need to go through every single piece of text and restyle/resize everything. Can you imagine how many IT folks got shafted by that? All the "I need this fixed now"... shudders
- miffy900 4y ago
  True, yes, but when they do that, they also leave out some key features. A lot of users of Final Cut Pro kept using the old version because Final Cut Pro X left out a lot of features.
- tengwar2 4y ago
  They often do it. One that causes great annoyance to me is that when a calendar alarm goes off, you no longer have the ability to pause it to an arbitrary period before the event. Why it was removed, I have no idea. Yes, they kill entire apps as well - usually the professional ones like Aperture. At this point I would say that it would be folly to let a business depend on any Apple software.
mminer237 4y ago
I can't imagine it would take that long amortized to switch if Apple did end up removing it another 10 years and you're still mailing things then. How complicated are these mailings?

CharlesW 4y ago

Apple doesn't do that, really. Apple's modus operandi is to kill entire apps, and (if you're lucky) replace them with all-new apps — see Final Cut Pro X, Apple Photos, etc.

anonymousiam 4y ago
Did you read the article? "The feature was originally included in Apple’s word processing software, but got the axe in 2013’s version 5.0"...
- CharlesW 4y ago
  Yes, 5.0 is the "all-new app" scenario I'm referencing. I should've spelled that out for people who didn't live through the traumatic iWork 2013 app overhaul, thank you.
- kccqzy 4y ago
  It's safe to say that in 2013 Apple killed the existing Pages, Numbers, and Keynote app from the iWork ’09 suite and replaced them with the new ones scaled up from iOS. I still can't get over the shock that fateful 2013 day when I downloaded the new apps.
spartanatreyu 4y ago
I remember one update to Keynote (Apple's powerpoint) that removed the ability to replace fonts if the requested font wasn't detected on the computer. Chief officers, marketers and salespeople with macbooks aplenty, downloading 100 different fonts and creating slideshows... Only to try and send them over email/usb and have their 100+ slide presentation completely break down with every piece of text getting set to the same font with a larger than normal font-size, making text overlap the edge of the screen or other text and losing all sense of readability. Sorry, you need to go through every single piece of text and restyle/resize everything. Can you imagine how many IT folks got shafted by that? All the "I need this fixed now"... shudders
miffy900 4y ago
True, yes, but when they do that, they also leave out some key features. A lot of users of Final Cut Pro kept using the old version because Final Cut Pro X left out a lot of features.
tengwar2 4y ago
They often do it. One that causes great annoyance to me is that when a calendar alarm goes off, you no longer have the ability to pause it to an arbitrary period before the event. Why it was removed, I have no idea. Yes, they kill entire apps as well - usually the professional ones like Aperture. At this point I would say that it would be folly to let a business depend on any Apple software.

mminer237 4y ago

I can't imagine it would take that long amortized to switch if Apple did end up removing it another 10 years and you're still mailing things then. How complicated are these mailings?