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Apple Updates iWork Mac and iOS Apps With Support for OS X El Capitan and iOS 9
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Yeah.. Microsoft has been killing lately. With Office, the new Surfaces... Been using Office a lot lately on my Mac & iPad. Definitely enjoying the SplitView on the iPad.
It's also $6.99 more than what I payed for iWork. . . and my College gives me a free Office student subscription.
It's all in the use case. There is a use case where you need an easy to use editor, that works across multiple platforms and is free. Pages fits this better than Google or MS. Keynote fits this and in fact, I find it better than powerpoint. Numbers kind of fits this, but without pivot tables I am still using Excel. THere are a ton of features that iworks is missing compared to Office, but unless you are writing a thesis most people don't need it. And unless you are a publisher, the macros and VB is not needing either (who needs VB anyway).
All I want in the world is Keynote to add a hover trigger. Click can get me so far, but not far enough.
The price doesn’t matter, the fact that it costs money is reason enough for many people to compare both. Many people don’t need the full Office suite, many people don’t even need the capabilities of Word. Office has a target customer and due to the increasing abundance of cheaper and perhaps more suitable alternatives, there isn’t a reason anymore to always choose Office. It escapes me how anyone could say that Office is the better choice when it is also costly.
On the Mac, I almost agree. The iOS version is far too limited....you can't even create a table of contents or add a word to the dictionary...
best money spent over these apps. Lack of features and they aren't powerful enough for the workplace environment. $69 per year / $99 per year is a steal, especially with the ability for it to be on every device. Since iPhones only come with iWork if you buy a new one since the 5's launched, Office365 is in a better spot. Not that I am a fan of Microsoft in anyway, because I am not, but they do make the best work place software. Thus the reason Tim Cook brought them on stage.
I see they still haven't moved the word count display. It's still obscuring text on the page, which has to be the worst design decision ever. Literally the entire point of a word processor are the words on a page.
I wonder if they finally included URL Scheme's?
And how do you use picture in picture with numbers or pages?
And how do you use picture in picture with numbers or pages?
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Looking through the change log for each of the applications it appears that things are developing step by step. For those whining, things don't happen over night and quite frankly I'd sooner have a modern and optimised office suite with a few features missing than dealing with Office 2016 which is a 32bit application, riddled with inefficiencies, lacing ActiveSync/CalDAV/CardDAV support not to mention its atrocious handling of non-US english languages (as I've pointed out in past posts). Pages, Keynote and Numbers for a large number of people does the job quite well and over time features that are missing but present in iWork '09 will reappear (as seen in the change log) but it is a matter of ensuring that this time both the web, mobile and desktop versions are all developed together so that you don't have a situation of incompatibility between the three platforms.
Edit: Just did a quick opening of some docx and xlsx files - the support is a lot better especially when it comes to Excel documents. If you're having large complex documents with macros then the wheels might fall off but a large number of people they shouldn't have too many problems - with Office moving to the Office Open XML document format it has made it a lot easier for third parties to provide support where as in the past even Microsoft struggled to support old versions of their file formats.
Edit: Just did a quick opening of some docx and xlsx files - the support is a lot better especially when it comes to Excel documents. If you're having large complex documents with macros then the wheels might fall off but a large number of people they shouldn't have too many problems - with Office moving to the Office Open XML document format it has made it a lot easier for third parties to provide support where as in the past even Microsoft struggled to support old versions of their file formats.
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The best productivity apps keep getting better and further ahead of all the competition. It's amazing Apple does all this for free. Damn it feels good to be an Apple customer.
I've got a big spreadsheet in Numbers of the scotches I own/have tasted/have drank, big spreadsheet of home inventory, movies I've seen and notes (1500+), passwords and license keys, CDs/DVDs inventory, ASCII table, US states information, key dates in history, US presidents, etc.
Keynote, a couple presentations.
Pages, not so much. It's too hard to keep a bunch of stuff in Pages on my iPad (where I would create most of them) and transfer the files back and forth (without a useful file system or memory stick support or anything). And, no, I'm not using iCloud, thanks.
Why would you pay 7 bucks a month if iWork works for you?
Great news. I love iWork, and my whole company uses it. I hope we keep seeing better and better versions. Apple can't open a threat vector with Office again.
The iCloud Drive app functions somewhat like a file system but since you don't like iCloud for some weird reason (I have no syncing problems), I think Dropbox and Documents are excellent apps to try.
Still a long way to go though.
Have they? What have they been updating?
Pages for OS X is still missing two page view... 2 years on... pretty disappointing.
Many, many people use iWork. You have to remember that just because you don't use it doesn't mean that many people don't use it. And Office365 is a complete waste of money. I can't believe you use it. It's not blowing apple. Do you have numbers to prove your assertion? And you have to do a cost ratio partitioning analysis with any numbers you might have.
True to an extent but these are good basic apps as it is. Could they use more features - certainly but that doesn't diminish their current value. Everyone of them has gotten enhanced export and in some case import from the equivalent MS apps. Of course we need to see how much better the export/import features are but if compatibility is firmed up then Apple can start to add more features.
We since you asked, iWorks does need a better scripting facility. They have made progress with this release updating Apple Script support but I'd like to see them get away from Apple Script. What I wanted a year ago was Python3 built into the apps, now I'm thinking a Swift interpreter might be a better long term goal.
Apple needs to get back into their software. They dropped Aperture, screwed up FCP, iWork sees very little innovation other than compatibility updates, their Trailers app is basically dead, the Music app is a mess, iTunes is a train wreck. Seriously, they just haven't been able to get software correct lately.
It's a feature update, not a bug fix update. It has been supported before the day zero.