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Keynote is vastly better than PowerPoint. Apple made the right call in the end.
by nojito 4y ago
Keynote is vastly better than PowerPoint. Apple made the right call in the end.
- PinguTS 4y agoYou know, that there was no Keynote in the 1980 and 1990. There was no Keynote before MacOS X at all. As much as I like Keynote, it is still very limited in many ways. One not so unimportant, it is Apple only.
- edf13 4y agoI use Keynote on Windows... via the iCloud website. It is Keynote, although a little more limited - but it works for me.
- kalleboo 4y agoHuh I always assumed Apple had acquired Concurrence but reality turns out to be far more interesting - the developers were acquired by Sun of all people to develop an OpenStep and then Java office suite...
- p_l 4y agoEven funnier, when Sun showed Looking Glass desktop demo, Jobs apparently called Schwartz with a Cease & Desist demand. Schwartz reportedly answered with equivalent of "nice presentation program you have there, would be a shame if it was canceled for copyright infringement" and the C&D was dropped.
- astrange 4y agoRelated, everyone’s favorite Office feature WordArt was Scott Forstall’s intern project at MS before he led the creation of iOS.
- duxup 4y agoKeynote somehow always looks amazing, but is also pretty limited compared to power point. Having said that ... it also gets the same job done so being limited maybe isn't so bad.
- sdoering 4y agoI always said I would miss keynote the most when dropping Mac. I still miss a bit of the ease which with you could create beautiful slides given a decent master. Not sure why, this was and probably still is a bit better on Mac. But other than that I miss nothing using PowerPoint on Windows nowadays.
- duxup 4y agoEvery time I dip into PowerPoint it feels so hard to make things not ... look bad.
- innocentoldguy 4y agoI agree. I think Keynote's limitations are a solid feature. Presentations should be basic slides with a minimal amount of important information on them. PowerPoints features are excessive and I've seen those features lead to disastrous, in my opinion, presentation experiences.
- april_22 4y agoNon-Apple user here. Just out of curiosity: what makes Keynote better than Powerpoint?
- dr-detroit 4y ago
- ch_sm 4y agoPersonal opinion. The animations are smoother and better designed, the templates are nicer, the UI is simpler, the default fonts they ship with are more recognizable and render better (at least on hi-res displays), and it feels a little easier on CPU and Memory.
- bombcar 4y agoKeynote is more limited than Powerpoint; but unless you're a Powerpoint wizard, Keynote has much better defaults and styles. I've yet to see a Keynote deck that cannot be replicated in Powerpoint; but the average user seems to make better ones in Keynote unless they have a designed template that they stick to very carefully.
- jedberg 4y ago> I've yet to see a Keynote deck that cannot be replicated in Powerpoint; Almost every deck I've ever made in Keynote cannot be replicated in PowerPoint. It doesn't have the same support for transitions that Keynote does. Good transitions (not flashy ones) are what make a good presentation great.
- mvidal01 4y agoDoesn't the content and the public speaking skills of the presenter play a role?
- jedberg 4y agoI mean of course it does, but if you have a great speaker with great content and a crappy deck, it really takes away from the message. But if you have a good speaker with good content and an amazing deck, it enhances the message so much that that presentation is perceived very highly. Yes, you need good content and a good speaker as a baseline, but assuming you have that, the deck is what makes the difference.
- Spooky23 4y agoKeynote looks great but is essentially unchanged for almost 20 years. PowerPoint is less awful in many ways than it was.
- p_l 4y agoConsidering that the first releases were cloning an existing program to the point that threat of copyright infringement suit was seen as legitimate, I suspect certain things were forbidden to change at least so long as Jobs lived.
- arbitrary_name 4y agoI consulted at Apple for a while, and many people there preferred to use PowerPoint. I was given permission to work with PowerPoint to prevent issues when working with other teams and vendors who did not have keynote. I found the whole thing hilarious. Their excel competitor, the name of which i don't recall, had even less utilization internally which i found even more amusing.
- xattt 4y ago> Their excel competitor, the name of which i don't recall … I think they named after whatever spreadsheets are used for calculating, something like Apple Digits or Numerals or Figures. Does anyone else remember?
- bdowling 4y agoIt's called Numbers. I prefer it to Libre Office Calc. Neither are perfect substitutes for a person who really needs Excel though.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoPretty sure xattt was attempting humor.
- bdowling 4y agoWhoosh. Thanks.
- KerrAvon 4y agoProbably depends on the specific team, but I’ve never seen anyone at Apple use anything but Keynote since shortly after it became available. Apple is very sensitive to design, and Keynote’s default templates provide good design out of the box.