Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?

Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by freyr on Friday September 14, 2012 @10:04AM (#4521655)

The three components to "I works" (or iWork, as it's more commonly known) are now sold individually through the App Store. And they vary in quality from poor to excellent.

Keynote is probably the best presentation software available on any platform, in my experience.

Pages is the word processor and page layout tool. It's just OK for light word processing but pretty good at page layout.

I haven't used Numbers much, but apparently it doesn't provide the advanced functionality offered by Excel. But I certainly prefer it to the Google's web-based spreadsheet tool.

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Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by goatforce5 on Friday September 14, 2012 @10:25AM (#4521742)

Keynote was originally designed for Jobs, and so i'd guess it got a disproportionate amount of attention from him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote_(presentation_software)...

And, FWIW, I only occasionally need a spreadsheet at home and Numbers works perfectly for my limited requirements.

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Re:Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To ... by freyr on Friday September 14, 2012 @10:55AM (#4521907)

I actually agree, I don't use Numbers often, but it does whatever I need for basic at-home use without a hitch.

In Numbers' case, I was going by claims I've heard from Excel power users, who say it lacks Excel's advanced functionality. I edited my original post to reflect this.

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