Apple’s selling more iPads than HP sells laptops… their entire line. They also sell more than Dell. Considering how, between them, they kinda have a lock on the corporate world, that gives you an idea of the size/value of that market. And with all those “non-business” iPads being sold it helps to understand why they’ve got a non-business focus on iWork.
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Apple Updates iWork for iOS and macOS With New Linking Features and More
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If Apple was serious about iWork, they would introduce basic features into Pages like line numbering etc. Furthermore, when I prepare a document in Pages then export to Word for my collaborators, there are always differences. This to me represents a significant issue when MS Word is de facto an industry standard.
Apple today updated its suite of iWork apps, including Pages, Keynotes, and Numbers for iOS and macOS, with new features related to Schoolwork and the ability to link web pages, email addresses, and phone numbers to different shapes and objects.
For Pages and Numbers on iOS and macOS, the updates include the ability for users to link different elements, such as a link to a web page, an email address, and phone number to different shapes, objects, lines, and text boxes.
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote also now enable teachers using Apple's Schoolwork feature to "view student progress, including word count and time spent." The updates are available for free via the App Store on iOS and macOS.
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There was a time when it was.... about a decade or more ago. Keynote is really not any different today than it was 10 years ago save a template refinement or so. PowerPoint on the other hand has really evolved in features, functions, design... The last time Keynote had a major update it still shipped on CD-ROM.
I hope and hope for Apple to really develop and put some effort into iWork but wish in one hand, crap in the other and see which one fills up first applies here.
I do love Pages for creating handbooks and things as it's kind of like InDesign Light in many ways, and Numbers can make for some fun visual layouts with simple data.... but there aren't ever really any meaningful updates save iCloud compatibility or something.
Fonts... IOS and web versions of Pages have few fonts and when you open something you made on a mac, it's an endless "we substituted this font because it doesn't exist". At least the desktop gets a new font every couple of years...
Don't even get me started on cross-platform PowerPoint. I designed a deck a couple years ago for a client in PPT for Mac and no matter what I did, I couldn't get the right font to show up on the other end when it was viewed on a PC. The client had the font installed correctly on her PC, I had it installed on my Mac. I tried embedding it, tried everything anyone on the MS Office forums suggested. In the end the only way it was gonna work is if I rebuilt the entire deck from scratch on a PC. Fortunately the client was fine with using a fallback Arial font, but as a designer I was totally p.o.'ed at the whole experience.
LMAO if I didn’t know that, it tells you how little Apple cares to get it out there.
Thank you, ignatius345. I have just updated to Catalina due to your reply and you are right: the latest iWork (Numbers 11.1, and Pages 11.1) can be updated and works on Catalina.
I will have to disagree here. In the past couple of updates to iWork we got some meaningful updates. Pages is actually much more pleasant to use than Word now and it includes some desktop publishing features. Numbers has added some serious functions (xlookup, regX, and others) that make it useful and not only did they add Pivot Tables, we have categories, and they seriously improved the filtering which was annoying to me. Additionally, they added a million row limit to match Excel. There are a couple of data tools I would like added to include remove duplicates, and some other minor items. But The cumulative updates have really improved iWork.