What crossover? You do realize the for the apps and the files they create too be useful on a variety of hardware the apps have to be similarly feature full. The whole wide there is to have nearly the same features on both platforms and the web.
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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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Totally agree! I now use Quark Express for that when I need to produce any document beyond a basic text/high school level essay. It's pathetic this hasn't been put back in place.
Zzzzzz. Still no support for legacy Pages 09 features like facing pages, so almost all of my documents need not apply.
Also, I often have many open documents so the concept of having all the tools stuck to the side of every window is completely tiresome. Granted, it is slightly quicker to find stuff there than the even dumber MS ribbon, but please, Apple, give us back the option of separate, fixed (and multiple if we want) inspectors. Then I can muscle-memory to the commands I need while making the most of a small screen.
Also, I often have many open documents so the concept of having all the tools stuck to the side of every window is completely tiresome. Granted, it is slightly quicker to find stuff there than the even dumber MS ribbon, but please, Apple, give us back the option of separate, fixed (and multiple if we want) inspectors. Then I can muscle-memory to the commands I need while making the most of a small screen.
For anyone unhappy with iWork or MS Office, to be fair to the likes of Microsoft and Apple they've only had just over 30 years to try and make everyone happy with their word processors etc. These things take time. Bear with them, and maybe in about 2045 we should all have the word processors we've always wanted.
I will get ridiculed, but I think adding support for Extensions in iWork would set it apart from anything on the market.
I don't get why many people think iWork is irrelevant, it's a great suite, granted it is missing some features like referencing in Pages, and the redesign did kill some features on OSX, but I run a business and Numbers and Pages are perfectly fine, plus the cloud version is also free, I prefer the cloud UI to Google Docs too.
I was disappointed with just one 3D touch quick action, they could habe at least added search and share.
I was disappointed with just one 3D touch quick action, they could habe at least added search and share.
What, no new icons?
Round ones would have been great. Apple is really going downhill these days, its all about iOS, OS X is obviously not a priority anymore. Could we get a new Snow Leopard please? With round icons. And while you're at it, bring back pin stripes and the happy mac logo too.
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Ok, now serious, it would be nice to get the iOS icons imo.
Round ones would have been great. Apple is really going downhill these days, its all about iOS, OS X is obviously not a priority anymore. Could we get a new Snow Leopard please? With round icons. And while you're at it, bring back pin stripes and the happy mac logo too.
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Ok, now serious, it would be nice to get the iOS icons imo.
I noticed that too and was kind of surprised. This means the PPC fans out there can create an iWork document on something as old as a G3 running 10.3.9 and then open the file and upgrade it on the newest OS X. Nice!
Ha, you get haptic feedback as you slide images to the "alignment guides" or whatever they're called. If you're on a Force Touch trackpad of course (MTP 2 here). That's the first thing I've seen that uses the haptic feedback other than force clicking.
Would be nice if Apple would actually update these apps, esp. Pages, rather than just make them compatible with their latest OS. But seems to me like Apple is trying to get out of the s/w segment, but updates these legacy apps out of obligation and a marketing bullet point (free office software with every new computer!).
The icons are one of the few things they didn't screw up with the new iWork. It's easier to recognize icons with a pointing device when they have distinct shapes, and aren't all circles or squares. It used to be part of apples HIG back when they cared about it.
Pinstripes were awful––a real eyesore with no purpose.
Is that the subscription version you have to pay for every day of the year or it will stop working?
Luckily it's not a shame that "Office for iOS" existed only as vaporware for the first couple of years.
I can only speak for Keynote, but:
Keynote 6 introduced the Styles system (=awesome to create themes & batch change colours). And faster file opening. It's been re-coded from the ground.Plus some new animations. Plus some new animations. Pretty awesome. Certainly not "stagnate".
Why do they list multitasking support as a new feature they've added in this update (on Mac)? Every full screen app already works with MT....
Maybe the moment they introduce MagicMove to Powerpoint. Or any of the other great animations. Or Keynote's Paragraph/font-system. Powerpoint = 2 theme fonts. Keynote 6 = endless themeable(!) fonts.
Office is great for Excel. Not much more than that.
What are you talking about? Apps have to be updated to support Multitasking. Observe:
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Hmm... Google is OK, no doubt. Only thing that annoys me a bit is that they don't allow for non-Google-fonts. Icon-Fonts such as Entypo or FontAwesome, for example are very popular all around the web these days. Easy to implement in Keynote and Powerpoint. But not in Google Slides.
...and more apps to come, one would hope
Haptic feedback may be one of those small, seemingly "unimportant" things that could change the way we use machines. Just like the mouse replaced the old joystick.
Hope Apple copyrighted & patended the **** out of this
Just curious, but why is it a shame? It's not a contest. Should apple rush it just to be first? If they did, you would be bashing apple for rushing and making mistakes. Apple just can't win with this crowd. I'm so happy that Apple succeeds very well despite the bashing here. Obviously, the bashing isn't very effective.
The word count window can be turned on or off through the View menu (though a hotkey would be more useful). And it can be moved to any position within your document. Just drag it. It also offers many other options besides word count.