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If Apple had succeeded in buying Powerpoint, whatever alternative Microsoft purchased (or made) would have become the de facto standard anyway.
by pauliephonic 4y ago
If Apple had succeeded in buying Powerpoint, whatever alternative Microsoft purchased (or made) would have become the de facto standard anyway.
- mc32 4y agoHarvard Graphics!
- ghaff 4y agoI used that for a few years outputting slides to transparencies on a pen plotter. There was some other pre-Powerpoint program I used on PCs back then too but don't remember the name--may have been Lotus Freelance. (And a minicomputer-based program before those.)
- Gravityloss 4y agoMirage was one too. It was hard to use.
- ghaff 4y agoThose were the days when you had all manner of different word processing and graphics programs (among other things--though Lotus had mostly standardized people on 1-2-3 before Excel and Microsoft Office came along).
- Gravityloss 4y agoThat software understood the difference between data and presentation.
- astatine 4y agoIt's been decades since I heard of Harvard Graphics. Was part of my toolkit with WordStar, Lotus 123, FoxPro and NC. MS C6.0, MASM, CodeWarrior, an editor called Brief on the dev side. Good times.
- bombcar 4y agoWow, Harvard Graphics apparently stuck around until 2017 - http://www.harvardgraphics.com http://www.harvardgraphics.com I remember getting a giant box copy of it when a company my dad worked for was shutting down, it was years after it had been released but it had a massive manual and was pretty powerful.
- yitianjian 4y agoNot sure if Powerpoint was the standard in my circles - hearing a talk being called a Keynote was definitely more common, but maybe this is just a tech/science bias.
- liotier 4y agoIn French corporate circles for 25 years, I have only seen presentations with Powerpoint or the occasional full-screen PDF. Apple is common among freelancers, but company people get the obligatory Windows laptop.
- mtmail 4y agoA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote is a type of public speech, especially at conference. That's unrelated to presentation tools in this case.
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- yitianjian 4y agoToday I learned, nice
- conductr 4y ago> unrelated to presentation tools in this case. Not entirely https://www.apple.com/keynote/ https://www.apple.com/keynote/
- tssva 4y agoKeynote the app was named after the term keynote referring to a speech not the other way around.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoNo doubt. I wonder how long it would have taken though. As a Macintosh fan since 1985 (when I first got my hands on one) I am always curious at the types of apps that began first on the Macintosh. That PowerPoint began on the Mac was not something that I previously knew about but when I saw the Mac screenshot in the article it all became clear to me somehow. People of course take issue with this, but I feel the early Mac interface and Mac-native apps encouraged a kind of creative way of thinking and so brought about even more creative apps to the platform. As a contrapositive (?): I dislike the user interface for Adobe Reader (Acrobat) on the Mac, very un-Mac-like. I was told by someone on the team that this was deliberate — trying to fit in with Microsoft's stable of "office apps". Maybe that's more of a discussion of whether an app should conform to the UI of a platform or the UI of a popular "suite".
- OnlyMortal 4y agoWhat does Reader give you that Preview doesn’t? I think Excel and Word were originally Mac products.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoNo, I totally prefer Preview. (I worked on Preview for many years though.) Besides the odd PDF that CoreGraphics/PDFKit can't handle, I like that Reader gives me "booklet printing" in page setup so that I can print 2-up with the correct page ordering to get a (5 ½ x 8 ½, U.S.) folded book in the end. I like nothing else about Reader.
- OnlyMortal 4y agoAh ok. Some basic pagination features then. You might take a look at this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-RpNFa6_OiY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-RpNFa6_OiY
- JKCalhoun 4y agoHoly hell, when did they add the Booklet option to Page Setup? EDIT: Wait, I don't see that in Preview, MacOS Monterey. I wonder if it is a feature of the printer driver (tried both my Brother and HP, no go).
- duxup 4y agoAnd who knows what Apple maybe would do with Powerpoint. We've seen products purchased used and quickly discarded too at times.
- outside1234 4y agoThey would have just built it. It is not like Powerpoint or the rest was magic, they just wanted to accelerate their timeline.