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iWork '05 Productivity Suite?

BWhaler said:
Remember about a year ago, a Sun exec said Apple licensed StarOffice to port it to OSX, and then he quickly retracted the comment?

Maybe it was true. If iWork has the basis of StarOffice with Apple spending over a year tweaking it and cleaning up the UI, iWork could be one fantastic MSOffice competitor. Especially if you factor in Filemaker and Keynote for two of the modules.

I really hope Apple is going for broke with iWork. And if Pages ends up being a consumer friendly web page designer, that will be beyond amazing.

Maybe the suite will look like this:

Word Processor -- New
Spreadsheet -- New
Presentation Software -- Keynote
Web Page Publisher -- New

Most consumers don't need a db, and this will keep MS (marginally) happy since it is not a complete competitor for the corporate Office market. More of a consumer offering.

Anyway, my happiness meter will be at a 8 with a great Keynote update. I'll be at 10 with a professional quality word processor. And a "this one goes to 11" if they release a "web site designer for the rest of us."
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Hope that this comes true :D
 
BWhaler said:
Remember about a year ago, a Sun exec said Apple licensed StarOffice to port it to OSX, and then he quickly retracted the comment?

Maybe it was true. If iWork has the basis of StarOffice with Apple spending over a year tweaking it and cleaning up the UI, iWork could be one fantastic MSOffice competitor. Especially if you factor in Filemaker and Keynote for two of the modules.

I really hope Apple is going for broke with iWork. And if Pages ends up being a consumer friendly web page designer, that will be beyond amazing.

Maybe the suite will look like this:

Word Processor -- New
Spreadsheet -- New
Presentation Software -- Keynote
Web Page Publisher -- New

Most consumers don't need a db, and this will keep MS (marginally) happy since it is not a complete competitor for the corporate Office market. More of a consumer offering.

Anyway, my happiness meter will be at a 8 with a great Keynote update. I'll be at 10 with a professional quality word processor. And a "this one goes to 11" if they release a "web site designer for the rest of us."
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Yes this would make sense, especially with now Notes being the name for the word processor Pages could very well be a web page publisher.
A suite like this at a price point of $49 or $99 would be a killer app.

The only thing I hope for is Office compatability. Without this it'd be bad, especially if Microsoft would consider pulling out because of this...
 
ChrisH3677 said:
There is already a product in the Apple market called iWork.

iWork

So where does this leave them? I assume for whatever reason they didn't have dibs on the name. Or has Apple bought it off them?

Anyone know or have any ideas?
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Seems like iWork is now called iBiz...........
 
Its got to be something minor like slashing display prices, xserves or powerbook speed bumps. They wouldn't release a new product that way.
 
Bandit said:
Its got to be something minor like slashing display prices, xserves or powerbook speed bumps. They wouldn't release a new product that way.
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Apple has released new products this way before, its unusual before a big event like MWSF but sometimes they relase some of the minor things so they have more time to focus on the bigger things at the actual event, i reckon some software could be relased, but chances are it wil be minor.
 
collegetech said:
I hope that it includes apps that will open/save MS access files and do decent Exchange calendaring. Then maybe I could get some of my customers off of the slow VPC.

Yes, Entourage supposedly "supports" exchange, but it doesn't do calendar's well. And while FileMaker finally went with a relational database, it still doesn't work with MS Access files. Those are the two key programs that cause some of my users to need VPC.
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Call Microsoft, not Apple.
 
BWhaler said:
...Most consumers don't need a db, and this will keep MS (marginally) happy since it is not a complete competitor for the corporate Office market. More of a consumer offering...
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Apple already has a database program that competes with Access. It's called FileMaker.
 
freiheit said:
Now THAT is a great poll! :) Personally I think Michael Jackson will get his original nose back before any of those other things happen. But it's all good.
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personally , not one of my friends uses the Apple mouse, first thing people tend to do is throw it away and get a 3 or more button mouse

What the hell is wrong with Jobs and this stupidity of a one button mouse?
 
animefan_1 said:
Apple already has a database program that competes with Access. It's called FileMaker.
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You missed the point.

My point is if they don't bundle a database program because most home consumers don't need a db, then it will be less of a threat to MS in the corporate market. I wasn't saying Apple doesn't sell a database program.
 
BWhaler said:
You missed the point.

My point is if they don't bundle a database program because most home consumers don't need a db, then it will be less of a threat to MS in the corporate market. I wasn't saying Apple doesn't sell a database program.
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Sorry...my bad :eek:
 
Sir_Giggles said:
Will it have brushed aluminum. :eek:
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I don't think it will. It's not the type of application to use the textured (brushed metal) theme. It'll be traditional Aqua, like Mail and TextEdit
 
A good move for Apple would be to include a MySQL GUI and install package all in one.

A powerful, open source DB with a Apples ease-of-use.

:)
 
macmax77 said:
personally , not one of my friends uses the Apple mouse, first thing people tend to do is throw it away and get a 3 or more button mouse

What the hell is wrong with Jobs and this stupidity of a one button mouse?
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Do your friends have some sort of iDisability that they are unable to use their other hand to press one of the 100+ keys on the keyboard while using their mouse?
 
BWhaler said:
You missed the point.

My point is if they don't bundle a database program because most home consumers don't need a db, then it will be less of a threat to MS in the corporate market. I wasn't saying Apple doesn't sell a database program.
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Just to bring up a point, Microsoft doesn't bundle Access with Office Standard either. You gotta get Office Professional (or do they bundle it with something else these days?)
 
xsnightclub said:
Do your friends have some sort of iDisability that they are unable to use their other hand to press one of the 100+ keys on the keyboard while using their mouse?
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i love Macs and i happen to have the same disabilities as my friends, i also have the mouse inside a desk and i am using a logitech.

I don't like that one button mouse and i think that if you are in business you should not be stuborn and hear the people.

The one button mouse is simply not the answer.

Why won't it have another button on the side and a scroll wheel?

Look, i wouldn't use a Pc even if BGates himself pays me, but i think that it is time for us, me and my crippled friends to have another mouse.
 
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