Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time collaboration

Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by drivingmenuts on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:46PM (#12446774)

This should have been introduced to the iWorks suite a long time ago. They've lost whatever lead they had by ignoring iWorks for the past decade or more.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by ktRolster on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:01PM (#12447642)

It should be emphasized that they've ignored iWorks for a long time.....it's hard to trust that it won't regress again after the renewed emphasis.

If they had spent the last decade making iWorks a replacement for Office (making it handle Excel, for example), they would be in a really good place right now. Instead, it's hard to take them seriously.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by lallysingh on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:31PM (#12447920)

Of course they will. iWorks isn't in their primary wheelhouse, so it'll have an on-again off-again lifecycle.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by 20yrs_no_equity on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:35AM (#12450526)

You're being silly. They have spent the past decade making iWorks better, and in fact, the whole app was revamped from the ground up about 2 years ago, to bring perfect compatibility across platforms from mac to ios.

It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by pawadu on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:16AM (#12453783)

> It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI.

None of the points you made are true. Granted things like UI can be very objective, but how someone can with a straight face say Excel is uglier than Numbers (have you seen those awful randomly colored icons?) is beyond me.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by ktRolster on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:17AM (#12453196)

It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving.

No. Again, if they had stopped playing around with the UI, stopped playing with file-formats in a way that breaks backwards compatibility, and instead focused on making the product more useful than Office (especially focusing on making Numbers a viable product), they would be in a good spot now.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by BFatts on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:38PM (#12447419)

Of course. And if they come out with another new feature I'm sure you'll point out how it should have been in version 1. But getting v1.0 out the door is tough - trying to add every feature will just delay it indefinitely.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by drivingmenuts on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:04PM (#12448279)

Version 1 came out a decade ago. They've had 10 years to get to version 2. Collaborative editing is so old hat by now it's not even a thing anymore.

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