Apple Updates Long List of Apps With Bug Fixes as Keynote for iOS Gains Apple Watch Controls

[PinkyMacGodess]

214. Mostly free, mostly unused!

At one point I had over 100 apps on my iPhone. Then one day I was stuck in an airport and started flipping through a bunch of them. As I used some of them, I realized that they kinda sucked, and axed them. I don't know how many I have, but, like lint, I had collected a whole bunch more apps.

I had a Japanese to English app that was one of the first to blow past the old maximum size for apps. I realized that it took about a quarter of my space, and whacked it.

But, yeah, it's easy to collect apps...

 

[Analog Kid]

It is slow with updates but remember, Apple is pushing the iOS/OSX/Web and it's probably slowing feature releases because of it. You have to remember, OSX and iOS are the only two that Apple has a focused team under and even with that, they push resources back and forth. Anything else is probably overtime or extra work for the software developers if they want.

The only time I felt like Numbers/Pages/Keynote and iPhoto/GB/iMovie was ever updated was when iLife and iWork were sold in CD cases.

Yeah, it's not hard to remember that Apple has too few people assigned to too broad an objective-- I get reminded every time I try to use the applications.

iWork got it's simplification early to bring it inline with iOS and web versions. This removed a small number of features but I have to say I feel it was worth it to have 100% compatibility. Also, missing features are showing up with every update. Maybe you just aren't the target audience and should pay for MS Office. But for most tasks, iWork is very capable. IMHO

I was the target audience-- I used it for just about everything at work and at home. If I'm not the target audience any more, it's because they changed targets.

I've paid for Office, I just don't like using it. iWork used to be a joy to work with. Numbers never quite cut it, but Pages and Keynote? Bees knees.

Now, I wind up just getting frustrated trying to accomplish the simplest things. Try placing an image at the bottom of a page? Nightmare. Try to get it to not overlap header and footer? Can't do it. I shouldn't be having to add and subtract newlines to make stuff line up. Timestamped footers are awkward at best. Trying to coordinate two moving object in Keynote? Won't happen if they're traveling different distances because the path timings aren't constant velocity. I haven't tried the latest, maybe they improved it-- but since the release notes just say "stability and bug fixes", I can't tell without creating a document.

I used to think the people were over reacting to the latest revisions to iWork, and you can probably find comments I've made to that affect in the archives-- but I've finally come to sympathize. Apple has had plenty of time to improve these, and they simply haven't.