Why is there Keynote...but no Pages and Numbers?

[mrmister]

Very interesting to see the AVP comes with only Keynote preinstalled, and not Pages or Numbers.

Would love to hear other explanations from people.

The one I suspect is true is that they have realized that text input is a pain point with AVP, at least as it exists now. They kept Keynote because otherwise they look strange as they are pitching it in part as a work collab tool.

But Pages is all about the text, and Numbers is all about...well, numbers. And in the same way the promo photos hate to show the battery pack, Apple is trying to hedge its bets by not including apps that show off the weaknesses.

Real question: will Pages and Numbers be available at launch in the App Store, and will they be rewritten/transitioned to be native VisionOS apps?

Like I said, if someone has a better theory, I'm open to persuasion. But it feels for me like another bullet point in the 'maybe it's not so great for actual text' list.

 

[4sallypat]

That's a good point.

I am sure most of the iPad apps can be adapted to Vision OS as soon as Apple tweaks the code.

And you would have to introduce a wireless keyboard and trackpad to use them.

I don't plan on doing any productivity work with my AVP.
It's an entertainment device.

If I want to use Pages, Numbers, Keynotes, etc I'd use my MBP, MBA, Studio Mac....

 

[Timo_Existencia]

I'm confident they'll show up shortly.

 

[fwmireault]

Hard to say if they will be available at launch (maybe at least the iPad version). Pretty sure that Apple intends to port all the suite to visionOS with native vision Apps, but I guess their teams focused more in the last six months on the development of the OS itself than the development of their native apps. I'm sure we will see an update pretty soon.