Wasn't there a rumor that Apple tried to buy EverNote? This would be awesome. Especially if Siri could search/access it. You'd have an actual office assistant...
To each their own, but I feel your pain.
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iOS 8 Screenshot Reveals New Healthbook, Preview and TextEdit Icons
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Wasn't there a rumor that Apple tried to buy EverNote? This would be awesome. Especially if Siri could search/access it. You'd have an actual office assistant...
To each their own, but I feel your pain.
One mans platitude is another mans....
If Pages could Read and Write .RTF files
If Pages could read and write .rtf files, TextEdit wouldn't be necessary on IOS. But it can't. If Pages had that, I'd gladly stop using TextEdit. But right now, files created in TextEdit can be used on all desktop platforms, and have been for years. After using Clarisworks for too many years and getting stuck with the format change when it became obsolete, I went to TextEdit. Not going Pages unless it can import/save RTF as well.
Notes can't display embedded graphics on OS X
If Pages could read and write .rtf files, TextEdit wouldn't be necessary on IOS. But it can't. If Pages had that, I'd gladly stop using TextEdit. But right now, files created in TextEdit can be used on all desktop platforms, and have been for years. After using Clarisworks for too many years and getting stuck with the format change when it became obsolete, I went to TextEdit. Not going Pages unless it can import/save RTF as well.
Notes can't display embedded graphics on OS X
I can see them going down this route, even if the screen shot is fake.
iWork is nearly identical on OS X and iOS... I guess they want the rest of their apps to be, too.
iWork is nearly identical on OS X and iOS... I guess they want the rest of their apps to be, too.
The heart in the Healthbook is a total ripoff from the Bing Health & fitness app.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/bing-health-fitness/cbb8c3bd-99e8-4176-ad8c-95ec6a3641c2
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/bing-health-fitness/cbb8c3bd-99e8-4176-ad8c-95ec6a3641c2
And there's my point. Apple has multiple apps that are preinstalled and can't be removed (well, Stickies can be), that do the same thing.
Those things appear weird to me as well, but the names may as well be placeholders.
The closest you'll have to an explanation is this: http://9to5mac.com/2014/03/13/ios-8...-icloud-as-the-future-of-the-ios-file-system/, although it doesn't explain much.
Apple's general goal is to eliminate the need for a classic file system. Their current implementation at an alternative, which you described, is not bad but far from ideal.
They may revamp it with a new file system paradigm that we don't know about, and those new apps may make sense considering the new paradigm.
Most of the functionality that TextEdit has (that Pages does not) are used for technical purposes (minor html, text encoding, saving as plain text, as a fallback reader for misc. config files/plists) and most of it is hidden in menus. If they made TextEdit more iOS-friendly (Simplified or otherwise removed the menus), it's workflow would be like a dumbed-down version of Pages, but with little reason to use it over pages (if iOS Pages didn't support .doc I might argue otherwise).
By 'useless' I really meant that Notes and Text Edit should be merged somehow, not that it shouldn't exist.
Completely agree. TextEdit makes no sense for iOS. Which leads me to doubt the authenticity of the rest of the rumor.
Preview what exactly, that's not legit, and text edit is basically notes already.
I get the feeling this is fake as hell and it's more likely osx will drop text edit in favour of using notes app instead. It weirdly has both right now.
Healthbook sounds too much like a new apple laptop than an app.
Guaranteed it'll just be called health, if there is such an app in the future.
I hope not because being healthily has more to do with over eating than activity anyway! in fact activity in fat children is just as high as in thin and only once kids are fat for a long time do they become inactive. High calorie food cannot be controlled by an app so it'll make zero different to anyones health anyway.
I get the feeling this is fake as hell and it's more likely osx will drop text edit in favour of using notes app instead. It weirdly has both right now.
Healthbook sounds too much like a new apple laptop than an app.
Guaranteed it'll just be called health, if there is such an app in the future.
I hope not because being healthily has more to do with over eating than activity anyway! in fact activity in fat children is just as high as in thin and only once kids are fat for a long time do they become inactive. High calorie food cannot be controlled by an app so it'll make zero different to anyones health anyway.
Both Notes and Pages have their purposes; but it's silly to use either for what TextEditor does.
Can Notes open a kext file? Can you edit your host file with Notes? I think the answer is simply 'no' to both.
Similar questions for Pages - Can Pages edit your host file, or various kext files? Can Pages save a plain text file encoded in ASCII? Al thought the answer is 'yes', why load that huge app for something so basic? I don't need templates, dynamic toolbars, etc. for that task. It would be like charging an iPhone with a 800watt gaming PC power supply. Sure, technically it can output the 5v 5watts that it takes to charge an iPhone, but its huge overkill, wasteful, and impractical.
While discussing this, I would love it if there was a good Notepad++ equivalent for OS X. TextWrangler doesn't work quite as well.
Why would Preview have a white background and TextEdit a black Background. In OS X they both have transparent backgrounds, so they should be the same here.
I've been an Apple developer for over 20 years and work closely with Apple. I may know a little about how they do things.
lol sure
If the Healthbook app is included in iOS8 or any leaked previews, it probably means that the iWatch is coming very, very soon. I'm guessing it is either revealed at WWDC along with iOS8 or later revealed with Healthbook and the iPhone 6 which it will be paired with. The latter makes the most sense, IMO.
Not necessarily. Healthbook will function along with the M7 co-processor already in the iPhone 5s (and likely iPhone 6) - meaning it does not need the iWatch to have a purpose. The iWatch could come a year later and be integrated as well, but the existence of Healthbook doesn't prove the release of an iWatch, although it can be expected down the line.
This is it?
They could just as well call it iOS 7.2
Yes, a partial screenshot of a very early software build necessarily presents a complete view of what the software will look like and what it will do. Great analysis.