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Apple iWork Screenshots

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gee-look-it-processes-words dept.

applextrent submitted a story with a bunch of screen shots of Apple's new iWork package, including Keynote 2 and Pages, the new Apple word processor. Nothing particularly surprising here.

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  1. Re:Does the suite the OASIS-format or not? by PoprocksCk · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think you can pretty much be sure that it does NOT use the Oasis format. Since when has Apple cared about open standards?

  2. Apple Message Board Migration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, I think they hang out at Apple Message Boards and send out "go to slashdot and do the the canned propaganda thing". Pure astroturfing.

    Real geeks loved Apple up until about 1982. The Apple II was open and geeks loved it. Steve Jobs closed the Machintosh shut. No information : just plug and live with what we give you was his motto. Apple died when Woz got kicked out and the marketing droids took over. Wanna develop for Apple? Lock-in city: it only works on Apple.

    If you buy Apple, you are buying fluff.
    It is not the "GUI" pioneer. It is not "the fastest PC". It's closed source GUI is a complete anathema to geeks.

    Apple is for the digital illiterati.

  3. Where's the meat? by JPyObjC+Dude · · Score: 0, Troll

    Without a spreadsheet, I will not bother using this tool set. It is apparent that their marketing groups is focussing on a very specific group of individuals: Managers and marketers and their immediate reports. Any real grinding work is acomplished in a spreadsheet app.

    Apple probably skipped the spreadsheet so they don't step on Microsofts feet with Office-X by leaving Excel the "real"* only choice for OSX.
    * - Besides using NeoOffice-J or OOO via X11 :p

    Note to Steve Jobs: Plesae expand your reseach in the area of native OOO support. Keeping Microsoft happy is keeping many Linux users (ex-microsoft users) from switching to OSX! If you support a native Open Office you will open the door for millions of switchers from Linux and Windows to OSX. And these users are very vocal - they will open the door for all their families and friends to switch over too. Just with my family alone, I have about 20 computes that I know of that I am telling the owners to wait for native OOO on OSX.

    BTW - Probably best to leave out the marketing reps when you have such cost to benefit analysis done though! OOO is the future of office apps. PERIOD.

    JsD

    [Use FireFox or Die!]