Poll: Did you purchase Keynote?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: Did you purchase Keynote? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=107&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

[Hemingray]

Looks like a great program, and I salute Apple for making it, but I personally have no use for it.

[James.Paul]

I bought it! I have no use for it either! I'll find one

[iAlan]

I ordered the English version from the Apple Japan Store (there are no other language versions currently available apparantly) and will receive it middle of next week (according to the delivery details!!),

Hope to use it very soon, I do a lot of presentations, but only have Windoze at the office, so will make the presentations at work, bring them home and 'create' my litle heart out on Keynote with transitions and stuff.

I do not know if I will use my Mac to present the final versions or export to Quicktime using timed screens for the presentation. Either way, i don't care...i just want to play with it...Keynote that is!!;)

[peterjhill]

Mine is on order. I give a presentation every few months and look forward to the next one.

[robbieduncan]

I don't give presentations, so don't really need it. Therefore I have not ordered. If they had released Novel (or whatever the word processor equivilant would be called) I might have bought it.

[medea]

When I have a need for a presentation I will surely pick it up, but right now I have no use for it, I'd rather buy iDvd.

[Ambrose Chapel]

I'm considering it - I'm going to have to do a short presentation soon and it seems like a great opportunity to show off Apple's goodies (including my TiBook!)

I'm just wondering if it's worth 100 bucks since I don't do presentations regularly...

[Centris 650]

I give 1-2 presentations a week. However I'm waiting to buy it for the simple reason that I'll be buying a pmac soon and I'll just add it to the order. That way it'll be all on one receipt and easy to find when I get my CPA wife to do my taxes next year.

[MacFan25]

Nope, don't really need it.

[ibookin']

I got it for free! :p

Made my Users Conference Pass to Macworld almost pay for itself.

[kishba]

i found out i had two presentations that i needed to give withing the four days after keynote was released. i ended up buying it with an education discount ($20 off) and next day shipping ($20 on top)... it arrived in time and the presentations were a snap to make.

i've never, ever made 70 slide presentation before... but now i've made 2 that were both incredibly successful.

apple is definitely developing a nice foothold in the office suite dept...

[DakotaGuy]

This will get me flamed...

but I still like PowerPoint. The school I teach at is about 95% PC so it just feels natural to me to use the same program on both platforms. I have been using PowerPoint for years on both platforms and just feel comfortable with it.

[MacRumorSkeptic]

Has anyone compared Keynote & Powerpoint side by side? Keynote has such a cleaner more attractive interface and is nicely streamlined. I've never used a presentation program before and Keynote was by far the easiest to use.

[wdlove]

My wife purchased Keynote, she's in the learning phase. "I like it, it's great"

[DakotaGuy]

Originally posted by MacRumorSkeptic
Has anyone compared Keynote & Powerpoint side by side? Keynote has such a cleaner more attractive interface and is nicely streamlined. I've never used a presentation program before and Keynote was by far the easiest to use.

Okay, I will admit I have never used Keynote so I cannot judge how much better or not it is then PowerPoint. BUT How can you say that Keynote is by far the easiest to use when you have never used a presentation program before???

[kishba]

Originally posted by Abercrombieboy


Okay, I will admit I have never used Keynote so I cannot judge how much better or not it is then PowerPoint. BUT How can you say that Keynote is by far the easiest to use when you have never used a presentation program before???

i'll say it's easier. powerpoint never encouraged me to make 70 slide presentations, but as i mentioned before... i made two in no time at all :)

[Vector]

I have used Both PowerPoint and Keynote, and Keynote is better by far. The themes are much better, but I wish there were more. The creation of themes is also much easier and they end up looking better. The transistions both from slide to slide and from element to element are nicer looking (especially the 3D ones) than those in PowerPoint. The tables and charts in Keynote are much easier to work with and they look better because you can give them drop shadows and customize them more than in Powerpoint.

Abercrombieboy:

I will forgo flaming you and leave that to someone else, but you should really try Keynote if you are required to make presentations in your job. The controls are very intuitive and anyone who has made a presentation before should be able to use it right away. Keynote gives you more control over the elements than PowerPoint does and enables you to create far nicer looking presentations (I think PowerPoint presentations look cheap and normally very boring). Keynote also plays nicely with PowerPoint, so if you have to use a PC at work you can easily import and export the files from Keynote to Powerpoint format.

[MacRumorSkeptic]

Okay, I will admit I have never used Keynote so I cannot judge how much better or not it is then PowerPoint. BUT How can you say that Keynote is by far the easiest to use when you have never used a presentation program before???

Becaaaause I have a copy of both and was using both side by side for the first time. I then discovered it was far easier to work with Keynote than with Powerpoint.

[DakotaGuy]

Okay I get your drift MacRumorSkeptic...

I might give it a try...I don't know when however...I put a lot of money into Office v.X and now I have to turn around and put another $100 into a presentation program. The other thing is that in my school where I teach I also have to use PC's. How does Keynote and PowerPoint work for saving to the server, opening on a different machine and then resaving? It seems to me it would be hard to build a presentation if you have to go back and forth between two platforms using different programs while in the middle of making a long presentation.

Lets say I start building a PowerPoint on the PC and then go home and re-open in Keynote and work on it...then go back to school and use PowerPoint...seems like a lot of confusion that I do not have using PowerPoint all the way around. Maybe I am wrong, but I just like to keep stuff simple. A program like Keynote is a program that Apple should release in both Mac and PC formats if they want wide acceptance. They did it with Appleworks and the PC version of Appleworks is a pretty good program. They need to think about their education market which a lot of time anymore is split platform. That is the reason we like Office at school, put it on the PC's and put it on the Mac's and it all works. We also run Appleworks on both.

Well anyhow...enough rambling...later

[scem0]

don't need it, but it's kinda cool. I think apple would benefit more
if they make if free, but that's ok. I'm never gunna use it anyways.

At least I don't think I will... ;)

[Vector]

Originally posted by scem0
don't need it, but it's kinda cool. I think apple would benefit more
if they make if free, but that's ok. I'm never gunna use it anyways.

At least I don't think I will... ;)

How would Apple benefit more if the gave it away? Apple has put a good deal of development time into this and if they dont sell it then they cannot make any return on it. The reason that they gave the iapps away for free was that they new that people might buy macs if they were given really nice programs with them. A free presentation app is not going to make many people change platforms. On second thought why doesnt Apple make all of their software free, then people might switch, or why dont they give away free macs. Sure then they can get more people to switch. Wow its so obvious i wonder why Apple hasnt instituted such a great business model. Give everything away while it costs the company large amounts of money for development and production. Thats a good way to increase profits.

[janey]

Originally posted by ibookin'@mwny
I got it for free! :p

Made my Users Conference Pass to Macworld almost pay for itself.

Like you even PAID for your users conference pass. You're not the only one who got it for free showoff. Don't kill me I still love you. Okay so I'll formally ask you out: Josh will you go out with me? (Apple Store @ The Grove, then maybe a mubie)

Keynote is grreat. PowerPoint, ThinkFree, OpenOffice and all those other programs just SUCK compared to Keynote. Steve is a great beta tester.

Check out the first presentation I made with keynote on my iDisk's public folder. :P

[gteehan]

Keynote looks and works great if you intend on sending/presenting it in the Keynote format.

If you intend on forwarding an export of it (PDF or PPT), it is useless. Graphics render jagged. Imported elements shift. etc.

Since 100% of the clients I send presentations to don't have keynote I'm forced to use tools like PowerPoint that render identically across platforms and systems. Yes, systems. I noticed rendering variations depending upon which Mac I was viewing the Keynote files on.

I will however say that when I I don't need to worry about sending decks out for review or approvals I would use keynote. It looks ten times better than anything on the market - less the cheesy themes and transitions.

Hopefully an update will address the vital element of a proper export to industry standard applications.

g