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Michael Goff

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You mean a better "spreadsheet app?" That's very debatable.
I'm an accounting professional and I have nor seen anything Excel can do that Numbers can't. This includes 500 level Statistics classes normally taken by pre doctoral students.
Pivot tables maybe? But that's more of a formatting issue.

The nice thing is when you come up with something and quote it off. By the way, Excel has hundreds of functions that Numbers doesn't.
 

JustinCPA

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The nice thing is when you come up with something and quote it off. By the way, Excel has hundreds of functions that Numbers doesn't.

Just none that anybody actually uses.

As for Skype, yeah, these new ads are great.
 

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Alex88

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Skype Update

I for one am happy to hear this news, because even though I often use Facetime or imessage for connecting with friends and family via my iPhone nowadays, I still rely on and use Skype for business purposes via my Mac laptop on almost a daily basis, and have been for about 5 years. While I have certainly heard of other users being unhappy and/or unimpressed with Skype, I personally have gotten a lot of constructive use out of it and therefore anything they may do to evolve and further enhance the FREE service is alright by me ;)
 

Michael Goff

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Just none that anybody actually uses.

As for Skype, yeah, these new ads are great.

So that's why people on the Mac generally gravitate toward Excel and shun Numbers ... because Excel doesn't do anything more than Numbners in the category of what they need. Sure, let's go with that.
 

JustinCPA

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So that's why people on the Mac generally gravitate toward Excel and shun Numbers ... because Excel doesn't do anything more than Numbners in the category of what they need. Sure, let's go with that.

Or that's what their bosses told them to get. Eventually Office will go the way of Lotus.
 

miknos

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It says the system requirements are 10.5.8...try downloading the standalone, instead of the update?

Can't find the standalone link. When I check update in Skype app, it says I'm using the latest version. It's been a few weeks already so I guess I need a newer version of OS X.
 

Cloudane

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Sweet Apple Acres
Awesome, will have to check it out later. I don't suppose you can finally choose whether or not to log in invisible instead of having to remember to go invisible before you log out :)

Better still would be if they'd remove the stupid cat that appears if you do a :3
 

roadbloc

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You mean a better "spreadsheet app?" That's very debatable.

Heh. No it isn't. Office kicks iWork to the curb. Even Keynote has stagnated and has been downgraded enough for PowerPoint to catch up. Office is a far better office productivity suite than iWork.
 

JustinCPA

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Heh. No it isn't. Office kicks iWork to the curb. Even Keynote has stagnated and has been downgraded enough for PowerPoint to catch up. Office is a far better office productivity suite than iWork.

It's still debatable.
But I'll concede in the interests of peace.

Let me ask everyone this... Why doesn't Apple improve Numbers?

Is there a free office suite like LibreOffice that isn't written in Java?

Looks like Skype 7.1 was just released (mostly related to being compatible with OS X Yosemite): http://blogs.skype.com/2014/10/29/skype-7-1-for-mac/

The Ads are probably bigger.
 

Michael Goff

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It's still debatable.
But I'll concede in the interests of peace.

Let me ask everyone this... Why doesn't Apple improve Numbers?

Is there a free office suite like LibreOffice that isn't written in Java?



The Ads are probably bigger.

Could you at least pretend to try to be objective?
 

roadbloc

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It's still debatable.
But I'll concede in the interests of peace.
It isn't debatable really, its clear pretty much straight away to anybody who has used the latest versions of iWork and Office. But okay. :)

Let me ask everyone this... Why doesn't Apple improve Numbers?
Apple now cater for consumers rather than professionals (or both). I guess they don't see any point in doing it. Competing against Office would be a waste of time anyway.

Is there a free office suite like LibreOffice that isn't written in Java?
Google Docs or Office Online may be good alternatives. They're both web apps but they're not Java.
 
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