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Pages, Numbers, and Keynote were all Steve Jobs being pissy about Microsoft Office. We have given Keynote the colloquial name "iPreach" for a reason ... I use
by bsder 4y ago
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote were all Steve Jobs being pissy about Microsoft Office.
We have given Keynote the colloquial name "iPreach" for a reason ...
I used to use it, but Pages forced an update and clobbered a final I had made right before I needed to print it out. That was the start of my leaving the Apple ecosystem.
- KerrAvon 4y agoIt’s not Steve being “pissy” or really caring about the MS apps at all. Such attitudes, people. Pages and Numbers exist because Apple wanted a modern office-lite suite to cheaply bundle in place of the increasingly ancient AppleWorks for users who needed basic functionality. Keynote exists because Steve personally preferred to use a particular NeXT app for presentations — I don’t recall the name —- and it was no longer available. It’s bespoke presentation software originally built directly to Steve’s specifications.