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iWork VP Roger Rosner Taking Charge of Apple's Digital Textbook Initiative
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Ive is the man
Jonathan Ive
needs to be the new spokesperson for Apple NOW!!!
No more experimentation or other staffers...
Ive should present ALL of Apples products and make all of the announcements.
He would bring substantial cool, accent and all, back to apple.
The current round of spokespeople are making Apple look like Microsoft... SOFT and nerdy... sorry... but true... no energy.
Jonathan Ive is your guy...
Apple... are you listening???
Jonathan Ive
needs to be the new spokesperson for Apple NOW!!!
No more experimentation or other staffers...
Ive should present ALL of Apples products and make all of the announcements.
He would bring substantial cool, accent and all, back to apple.
The current round of spokespeople are making Apple look like Microsoft... SOFT and nerdy... sorry... but true... no energy.
Jonathan Ive is your guy...
Apple... are you listening???
Hey .. you missed the word "SIR" Jonathan Ive.
As much as I love his works and passion, Ive has never been a stage person. Go figure
I would guess he'll be one of the speakers since he was in June. Maybe they included him in June to give him some experience.
Ahh, look what we have here. Another communist product of Apple. Look at this freak.
???? What is this about? Post to the wrong page or does the poster just see red?
I haven't read through the entire thread yet, so I don't know if anybody already answered to your post, but here is what you can do:
Download an iWork trial from http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/ and register it with your license number. It's that simple. The trial version -is- the exact same software that is on the product CD, and it accepts your license key.
If you don't have the license key, there are some other simple workarounds documented everywhere on the internet that describe how you can modify a certain text file so that it contains the word RETAIL in it which will also turn the trial version in an unlimited full version. Since you own a license, this workaround is fully legal for you, too.
I hope there will be iWork '12 (better get rid of those dates though given the past release schedule), but maybe this makes it even less likely.
Before the iWork VP was just playing solitaire all day, now he's doing some textbook stuff.
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I understand the feeling, but it's a sunk cost now. New iWork makes you better off.
Before the iWork VP was just playing solitaire all day, now he's doing some textbook stuff.
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I understand the feeling, but it's a sunk cost now. New iWork makes you better off.
I agree with you, I love Keynote, never used PowerPoint again since I started using Keynote. I rarely use Numbers because Excel excels
cool and as for Pages, I use it for local word processing. For group work, I still use Word.
I hope iWork 2012 will be released soon.
Would get rid of Microsoft Office instantly after release.
Would get rid of Microsoft Office instantly after release.
Some people have principles...
I've been waiting since April 2010 to buy it.
Drop the year and they will sell more copies.
Wondering
Just seems like e-book publishing would just be something built into Pages rather than a whole app unto itself. But I guess the big announcement will be the big publishers coming to iPad and an iWork announcement alongside.. Whatever, it'll probably be great.
Just seems like e-book publishing would just be something built into Pages rather than a whole app unto itself
. But I guess the big announcement will be the big publishers coming to iPad and an iWork announcement alongside.. Whatever, it'll probably be great.
I would venture to say that this initiative goes beyond just animated/interactive/cheap textbooks, but rather an effort to change our general education system. This will change not only how educational content is created, but who is creating it. Schools may now begin to adopt a more open approach to education with new subjects and methods to accommodate students specific needs. Education may finally truly join the internet age, the 21st century...
Forget iWork. This could be a BIG deal.
Forget iWork. This could be a BIG deal.
Ive is a designer. Introverted, intense, not that great on stage and, if you hadn't noticed, has something of a stutter. Ive is not your man.
The guy with stage presence is Craig Federighi from NeXT and now in charge of OS X.
Google YouTube selection of Craig's presentations
Craig was the lead at NeXT on Enterprise Object Frameworks and one of the architects of WebObjects.
He's far more charismatic than Scott Forstall, his contemporary and equally skilled [or technically more skilled] than Scott.
Before Craig came back he was CTO at Ariba. He was Bertrand Serlet's personal selection to succeed him at Apple.
You can't go wrong with either Scott or Craig. The more they can impact Apple the better we are all for it.
Son;t worry about Apple bringing out a new version of iWork for the Mac. If no change in 37 months doesn't mean anything to you then there is nothing more to say.
I actually have 2 copies of iWork09 but only use Pages to do all occasion cards. I always wanted to do something with KeyNote. Being a spreadsheet user since 1978 using my CP/M HeathKit I am always looking for something to replace Excel. I am glad that Numbers is good enough for you to use it for something. With only the second version of Numbers the program has never been developed. With no competition Excel 1 was allowed to languish for years also. But Microsoft is a software company. Apple with its Mac computers & iToys is as they claim a hardware company. This means that we should not depend on them for amy software other than the OS, i.e. Mac OS or iOS.
You'll have to explain to me how you find that you have a use for Numbers other than taking up space on your hard drive.
With iBooks really only working on the iToys, iPad, iPod Touch & iPhone it doesn't lend itself to as broad use as an ebook reader program like Kindle. Kindle can be used on all iToys, Mac & Windows PCs. The local library uses Kindle as one of their few formats. With this limited use format I would personally not look to Apple for any school textbooks. I would want to be able to use any textbooks on any of my computers or a friends computers as many times studying is done together. Apple had better come up with a total solution & not just an iToys solutions.
We have our share of iToys here. Actually the iPhone is the only let down in the group. Our iPod Touch does almost as much & has a much lower cost. The iPad is nice for many things, but still not as nice as our PowerBooks & MacBook Pros for portable use. I like to use our G5 PowerMacs or Mac Pros for any real work. This includes any school work like would b done with school books.
I have a copy or 2 of every version of iWork. I always have had hope. But this 37+ month wait for a new version of a program that needs a couple more updates to be useful for me means that I am glad that I have kept using Excel. I've purchased countless numbers of spreadsheet programs in an attempt to have a program to replace MS Excel. Excel though it is big does the job. Programs like Numbers really are only put out to support Excel. We see how little we would be able to do without a full use spreadsheet & end up being happier that we own Excel. So I guess that Numbers has really done a good job in that job. So I should be thankful for Numbers. Spreadsheets have been better fro Apple in the past. But this is the iOS future & Numbers is really only an MS Excel translation program.
Textbooks from Apple is a big NO just like Numbers is a big NO when it comes to useful spreadsheets.
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Don't worry about being suckered into purchasing the end of program iWork. iWork09 is 37+ months old now. My first disk has a Dec 2008 date on the iWork programs.
With iWork '09 coming out in 2008 there would be no reason to have an iWork '11 once the year was started. I'm not holding my breath on this idea of a new iWork version. I've long ago gone to other programs for this type of work. I already have enough software that is not supported. Why add more to that list. Maaybe we'll see iWork 12 in 3012. This is one of those bad reasons for putting the date into the program name. We can then really see how old of software we are using. iWork 09 should really have been called iWork 08 to give a better idea of just how long it has been for an update. Actually they were waiting for the new MacWorld Expo to announce iWork 11 or the more likely iWork 12 but then they finally remembered that they do not go to MacWorl Expos anymore.
haha No this isn't a situation where I *need* it for my job, I just want to USE it to make prettier charts. I can get the job done just as well if not slightly uglier with Excel provided by my employer