MS Office is the workplace standard in large organizations - but iWork's continual improvements and added features is closing the a gap to where personal and small business use is a good use case for iWork. I will break it down like this:
1.) Keynote is equal to or slightly better than Power Point
2.) Pages has received a lot of features that add desktop publishing features from iBook author and I think has 90-95 % of MS Word functionality. It is a cleaner and tighter application than MS Word - so I give it a slight edge over Word.
3.) Numbers - well this is where Excel still has an advantage for power users - but Numbers now that is has Categories (Pivot table functionality) and an increase in row and column capacity - it is getting closer. I think if Apple would include some data tools like 'Text to Column', Remove Duplicates, Flash Fill, and Group/Ungroup -- it would have all the functionality I need.
Apple has done a good job about adding work collaboration on their iWork products and integrating iCloud into its capabilities.
While the total reboot of iWork was frustrating to a lot of users- in the long run it was a good idea as the software was recreated from the ground up and is lighter and tighter than before. As long as Apple keeps investing in it - it will get better. Now if they could just add a flow-charting application.
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Agree with you here. If you look at the iPad as a tablet - the iPad OS combined with the refined applications that come native with it - you can do quite a bit. For personal productivity it cannot be beat for flexibility and the ability to do work. Compare it to Android tablets and its not even close.
The iPad could be a great personal computer replacement if it could be attached to a monitor (using full resolution) and keyboard/mouse combo so it can leverage the iPadOS applications in a work station format and then be used in mobile form by just unplugging it.
It has been interesting to see how this platform has evolved.
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