I keep getting surprised not enough people are seeing the real problem here:
If full iOS editability is the rule for iWork, it will never be as powerful as it used to be or as powerful as the Mac can make it. If Apple continues to base its decisions of iWork by being able to do everything you do on a Mac with a 4 year old iPhone, then the Mac will always be screwed, as well as Mac users.
Why isn't anyone seeing this? Why isn't anyone addressing the main issue that any software will be screwed if Mac to iOS feature parity is mandatory? It is not like the FCP X debacle, it is much worse. Imagine FCP X being bound to iOS and you will get the picture.![]()
Serious as a heart attack
Then you have some weird grasp on history, or maybe you live in some alternate world.
You obviously haven't used Logic X, while it was a major update with some bugs here and there, they haven't "destroyed" it by any stretch of the imagination.
I think Steve did remarkable work. Others may feel differently.
No, they are APOLOGIZING to customers. Something that also did not happen with Steve Jobs.![]()
Final Cut Pro X
iTunes 11
iOS7
Logic Pro X
iWorks
(not getting into other disastrous side line projects like 'Maps')
The saga continues. Wow, these guys really know how to destroy good working software.
You now get layout mode by unchecking "Document Body" in Document options. (On the OS X version)
To be honest, this new iWork update case feels like when Apple Maps was introduced with iOS 6 (and still has systematical issues as of today). As a cause of this (and probably many other fights inside Apple) Scott Forstall had to leave then. Now iWork may not be such an important product for Apple (yet). But I feel this case is just as bad.
Why don't they seem to learn from their mistakes? They could have avoided issues easily by maybe only announcing the new iWork at the last event, then taking some more time before the final release. Or, releasing the new iWork as a (public or restricted) beta, with the old iwork staying available. Collecting feedback and showing the world how far they can go from a BETA (where no-one expects perfection) to some really awesome, rewritten product, which most people then like. Same could have worked with Maps. (I still feel completely fooled if I submit errors within Apple's maps app and over a year later the same errors still exist!!!)
What is wrong with iOS 7? I like it and it only has minor changes. People were complaining they hadn't updated their iOS in forever and those same people are now complaining that they changed the aesthetics and some other minor changes.
Did they? I didn't see a hint of "we heard and are sorry, we will make it better, we promise" in the released statement. Only this is why it is bad and this will be added..
I even got my money back from Apple because of this buggy mess they called Logic X. If you go to gearslutz website I opened many threads with the bugs and some got videos included..
How does this even happen? It's not like Apple is still in 1996 and barely holding it all together. Biggest company in the world (at times). Massive cash hoard that could make it easy to throw a thousand programmers at a "from scratch" rewrite.
At least this Tim Cook version of Apple is willing to admit they are wrong.
Unbelievable that they are not re-introducing linked text boxes in Pages. The application is completely useless to me now, and have had to revert back to Pages '09 until that feature is put back in...
Yeah, yeah. Same old broken record.
They should have said that from the start. I lost some mission-critical functionality in the new Pages and it really threw me for a loop.
Thankfully they retained the old versions, but the fact is they need to communicate with their customers better. This policy of springing half-baked software on people like FCPX and iWork is not cool and needs to die after this debacle.
They should have said that from the start. I lost some mission-critical functionality in the new Pages and it really threw me for a loop.
Thankfully they retained the old versions, but the fact is they need to communicate with their customers better. This policy of springing half-baked software on people like FCPX and iWork is not cool and needs to die after this debacle.
Very good. Apple listens to the customers.
No, they didn't.
If they'd listened to the customer in the first place it wouldn't have been released so dumbed down. The same happened with Final Cut Pro.
It's Apple trying to simplify for the sake of it, without actually thinking that people may need those features they're ripping out.
That's what I keep asking myself as well. A postponed release would have meant that they would still be using the old version anyway.