AppleWorks had fairly solid functionality across the board.
As one of the people who kept clamoring for an update to AppleWorks, I should admit the app was just old, not broken.
I would have been happy with an update that kept the same functionality intact, but was built in Cocoa and used Mac OS X technologies along with some spruced up icons.
The fact that fonts didn't show as cleanly in Appleworks - along with the problem of not having access to OS X's transparency features - was the main reason the app felt old and unusable.
I was never under any illusion that Apple was going to compete head to head with Office. I don't need most of those high-end features anyway.
But now that we've been given a "replacement" for Appleworks that's clearly incomplete and changes the file format, I'm wondering how much better off we are in the productivity arena. At least until 2006.
Keynote 2 is an advanced app, much better than PowerPoint, Pages doesn't seem to compete with Word though, more with publisher. The £50 for iWorks is worth it for Keynote 2 alone.
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Originally posted by Frank777
AppleWorks had fairly solid functionality across the board.
As one of the people who kept clamoring for an update to AppleWorks, I should admit the app was just old, not broken.
I would have been happy with an update that kept the same functionality intact, but was built in Cocoa and used Mac OS X technologies along with some spruced up icons.
The fact that fonts didn't show as cleanly in Appleworks - along with the problem of not having access to OS X's transparency features - was the main reason the app felt old and unusable.
I was never under any illusion that Apple was going to compete head to head with Office. I don't need most of those high-end features anyway.
But now that we've been given a "replacement" for Appleworks that's clearly incomplete and changes the file format, I'm wondering how much better off we are in the productivity arena. At least until 2006.
Keynote 2 is an advanced app, much better than PowerPoint, Pages doesn't seem to compete with Word though, more with publisher. The £50 for iWorks is worth it for Keynote 2 alone.