get rid of the stupid inspector, lose all the separate windows for things like Fonts. Clean it up, it's all over the place.
Personally I hate OpenOffice but that is me. I'm really looking forward to a version of Numbers with a built in scripting language like Python. Numbers needs a lot of work when it comes to imports and exports. Frankly I'd like to see a version of Numbers that can easily turn a range of cells into HTML.skeuomorphism and the aesthetics is one thing but what exactly has stopped them from having numbers as usable and competent application?
its got some nice drag and drop solutions but when it comes to actual work i will go to openoffice/libreoffice and google docs every time.
Apple won't even get 1% of Microsoft's Office business with iWork, also known as iWorthless. Adopt top menus, get rid of the stupid inspector, lose all the separate windows for things like Fonts. Clean it up, it's all over the place. I can't believe anyone in here even remotely likes it at all.
What has Tim Cook ever said that leads you to believe OSX and iOS are going to be merged? Isn't Tim Cook the one out there slamming Surface and convergence devices as being poor design choices that leave you with a severely compromised product?Assuming there is going to be an OS11. I still think they are going to merge iOS and OSX at some point in the future.
Either way I hope we don't have to wait that long. If they are just hiring people now it doesn't bode well given the time it takes to develop new software. We are looking at 2 years min before any new release if that's the case.
I really do think it's time Apple spun off their software business into a separate company or merge it into their Filemaker business. It's the only way we are going to see any serious software development again.
Well I do use it. Pages only though. I can tell you first hand that Pages is fantastic in regards to creating flyers, posters and banners for my insurance office. I would just like Apple to offer more templates. MS Word on the other hand is hardly used much past typing letters and office publications. This has been the same for every company I've worked for.
I agree with you and others that iWork needs a serious upgrade and I'm disappointed that Apple has ignored it so much but I do think you're showing more hate than necessary. I don't think people love MS Office that much. It's just that as an industry we're stuck with it because MS has a monopoly.
(Example: OS X's Finder sidebar icon like Home and Desktop that used to have colored sidebar icons. Now they're all the same blue-gray and you've lost a visual cue that made them quicker to find and click. Compare to the Go menu which still has the colors. "Like" them or not, those colors were useful!)
Why? It wouldn't be faster you know.
It is also likely that the new versions of iLife and iWork would lose the skeuomorphisms - emulation of real-life objects and materials like desk calendars, leather and wood. There have long been tensions within Apple over this approach, but with skeuomorphism proponent Scott Forstall being forced out of Apple and Jonathan Ive having now assumed responsibility for Human Interface aspects of software as well as hardware design, a new design direction for Apple's software may be in progress.
a file sorting system that can reorganize according to time, category, or a common theme -- such as a work project -- and sync with cloud servers and other users
Your comment on iPhoto hits a sore spot with me. Between the behavior of the iOS variants and the Mac OS variants I'm tempted to look elsewhere. In the case of the iOS variants it is almost like Apple has some sort of anti user zealot designing iPhotos interaction with iCloud. iCloud is a good concept executed terribly wrong on iOS devices, especially in the context of iPhoto. At the very least they need a clean way to designate photos as being in the cloud uniquely or duplicated there from the originating machine. To put it plainly you don't always want your photos on the cloud.iWork still can't compete with Word and Excel for anything longer than a few pages of pretty text and pictures. It seriously lacks any advanced features and for novices, the 'inspector' seems ancient compared with Microsoft's content aware ribbons.
As for iPhoto, it's crazy that it can't even work seamlessly with the iPhoto app on the iPad, although that point has been made plenty of times before.
Why not? It isn't un characteristic of Apple to let software stew for years.Overall, this is great news, but I hope Apple is much farther along in updating iWork and iLife than this story would indicate. I don't find it plausible that they are just now starting work on this after 4 years of no major iWork update.
On this we will see.This is just sensationalized speculation and not supported by anything in the story. Please stop bringing up this stupid meme of "Ive's minimalism" vs. "Forestall's skeumorphism". There is no evidence to show that Ive is opposed to software having textures or ties to the real world. What is even skeupmorphic about iWork? This notion that Ive is going to remove all color and texture from their apps because some tech pundits don't "get" skeumorphism is just silly. Ive will polish and scale back some of the excesses of Apple's design, but there is nothing to indicate a change in strategy.
iCloud has so may issues that one can only see it as fundamentally flawed. ICloud only really works well for apps that sync very specific data and frankly sucks when it comes to productivity app usage.I hope people will now stop talking about iCloud being fundamentally flawed because you cannot organize multiple files types by project. As this shows, Apple is already working on a solution for this use case as well as sharing and collaboration. Give them some credit...and some time to get this all working.
Apple won't even get 1% of Microsoft's Office business with iWork, also known as iWorthless. Adopt top menus, get rid of the stupid inspector, lose all the separate windows for things like Fonts. Clean it up, it's all over the place. I can't believe anyone in here even remotely likes it at all.
Well I do use it. Pages only though. I can tell you first hand that Pages is fantastic in regards to creating flyers, posters and banners for my insurance office. I would just like Apple to offer more templates. MS Word on the other hand is hardly used much past typing letters and office publications. This has been the same for every company I've worked for.
I agree with you and others that iWork needs a serious upgrade and I'm disappointed that Apple has ignored it so much but I do think you're showing more hate than necessary. I don't think people love MS Office that much. It's just that as an industry we're stuck with it because MS has a monopoly.
This is just sensationalized speculation and not supported by anything in the story. Please stop bringing up this stupid meme of "Ive's minimalism" vs. "Forestall's skeumorphism". There is no evidence to show that Ive is opposed to software having textures or ties to the real world. What is even skeupmorphic about iWork? This notion that Ive is going to remove all color and texture from their apps because some tech pundits don't "get" skeumorphism is just silly. Ive will polish and scale back some of the excesses of Apple's design, but there is nothing to indicate a change in strategy.
Increase the amount of engineers instead of straining their teams. Apple has a history of hiring engineers that can be shifted around departments as needed. Why bother? Just hire enough engineers for iOS, OS X, iLife, Aperture, iWork, etc development instead of moving around an already strained group. It would improve quality, increase updates cycles (iWork 09 and iLife 11 should have been updated a long time ago). iOS gets a lot of work due to its popularity/need, OS X and associated suites need the same tender loving .