Is apple killing off iWork?

[Angra-mainju]

I honestly don't understand it. Why most of the ppl in here think that when a product is not updated regularly... Apple is killing it off? Hmm? People were frustrated when MBA wasn't updated on time... or Mac Pro, I'm not even gonna mention about the iPod Classic...

 

[MisterMe]

this...post is full of BS.

1.) there's a ton to improve with iWork. it's nowhere NEAR good enough to be a reasonable replacement for MS Office for professionals.

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Therein lies the flaw in your logic. iWork will not, is not, and never has been targeted as an Office replacement. If you want a commercial replacement for Office, then buyout Corel and bring back WordPerfect and port the rest of the WordPerfect suite to the Mac or persuade IBM to revive Lotus and port the rest of SmartSuite. Your chances of success are at least as good as waiting for Apple to repurpose iWork.

 

[Hallivand]

Well for iWork '09, Keynote blows Powerpoint away in terms of effects and just general polish.

A keynote presentation always looks more...spiffy as compared to the powerpoints I see. Maybe its just the skill level, but Keynote lets you access advanced features more easily than PowerPoint, which is a massive application with tonnes of features buried everywhere.

 

[robm99x]

It is possible to set it up, I have dug up this thread which may provide the solution although it may be an older version of Pages, I forget when it was last updated.

Back in the day, ClarisWorks / AppleWorks was the best program suite I ever used. The seamless integration (well, aside from database documents -- which I still cannot convert) and the low cost and speed were awesome.

 

[halledise]

Autosave's coming with Lion though

autosave is here now - command+S works for me, especially as a left hander
it's become an 'automatic' response irrespective of which app I'm in.

also, if you are wishing to revamp iWork, Jumsoft have some great additional templates that are ver reasonably priced.
http://goo.gl/JkzB