New Appleworks in April, woohoo!
According to Spymac, at least:
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High-ranking developers recently got a peek at the upcoming AppleWorks upgrade, which Spymac has learned is progressing on schedule and set for an early April release.
There are no plans to make AppleWorks part of the iLife package, sources say, but don't be surprised to see AppleWorks and Keynote bundled together in another cleverly named package.
Always a goal of AppleWorks, the new version is said to not only work well with Microsoft Office, but also with exporting web pages -- purportedly an area of high development.
.Mac integration was not specifically mentioned as a new feature, though Spymac speculates such enhancements will arrive with the update.
Pricing is not scheduled to change. <hr></blockquote>
I haven't done any WP in a while and it was just plain painful reformatting fonts the other day in AW 6.2.4 (click, count to five, watch fonts appear, move mouse, wait for them to scroll, repeat until your wrist aches), so a proper Cocoa AW with proper OS X toolbars and integration into, say, Address Book, iCal, Keynote and Mail would be just the ticket.
This is proving to be some year for new Apple product already.
[quote]
High-ranking developers recently got a peek at the upcoming AppleWorks upgrade, which Spymac has learned is progressing on schedule and set for an early April release.
There are no plans to make AppleWorks part of the iLife package, sources say, but don't be surprised to see AppleWorks and Keynote bundled together in another cleverly named package.
Always a goal of AppleWorks, the new version is said to not only work well with Microsoft Office, but also with exporting web pages -- purportedly an area of high development.
.Mac integration was not specifically mentioned as a new feature, though Spymac speculates such enhancements will arrive with the update.
Pricing is not scheduled to change. <hr></blockquote>
I haven't done any WP in a while and it was just plain painful reformatting fonts the other day in AW 6.2.4 (click, count to five, watch fonts appear, move mouse, wait for them to scroll, repeat until your wrist aches), so a proper Cocoa AW with proper OS X toolbars and integration into, say, Address Book, iCal, Keynote and Mail would be just the ticket.
This is proving to be some year for new Apple product already.
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I look forward to a proper AppleWorks for Mac OS X... please!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
On another note, don't you all think it would be wise of Apple to add that bug button they've added to Safari to all of their programs? This way people could send them screen shots of what went wrong, and they could describe how it went wrong and what they did before it happened. I think the best way for Apple to have the greatest products out there is to realize how much we all love Apple and are all willing to help make it better. Just like that guy who got his computer stolen a while back and all the Mac users came to his aide. I think we could really be of some help. What do you all think?
<strong>On another note, don't you all think it would be wise of Apple to add that bug button they've added to Safari to all of their programs? This way people could send them screen shots of what went wrong, and they could describe how it went wrong and what they did before it happened. I think the best way for Apple to have the greatest products out there is to realize how much we all love Apple and are all willing to help make it better. Just like that guy who got his computer stolen a while back and all the Mac users came to his aide. I think we could really be of some help. What do you all think?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Marketing dept. would never allow a bug button on every app (just like they nixed the "lemon iMac" and the dock's "suck effect").
Which would suck.
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Marketing dept. would never allow a bug button on every app...</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> The day the Marketing dept. has any say in software design... er... you must be thinking of Microsoft. <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
[quote]Originally posted by Overhope:
<strong>I can't remember where it was, but another article about AppleWorks suggested that Apple's going to bide its time with this release until M$ unleash the next version of Orifice:mac (presumably the one with the Exchange server interoperability), just so as not to appear to be too aggressive on Bill's turf.
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I think, hope, that those days are OVER. Who cares what M$ does or doesn't do!!
[ 02-11-2003: Message edited by: PooPooDoctor ]</p>
i'd really appreciate an update to appleworks. Back in the days of clarisworks i massively preferred it to ms office... and since then it actually seems to have gone backwards (notably outline view!)
anyway, i know i'll rush out and pay money for it, no matter how pathetic the upgrade - which is more than i can say for a certain other office suite. the clarisworks object oriented view of word processing integration always was a winner
a link was posted on slashdot recently to one of the original authors' account of its original development, which was pretty interesting:
<a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1559223&tid=156" target="_blank">http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1559223&tid=156</a>
<strong>My AppleWorks crashes more than a loser crashes parties....eh? eh?
I look forward to a proper AppleWorks for Mac OS X... please!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[surprised]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
I dunno Nebaga, I thought it was funny. buncha stiff shirts here
[ 02-12-2003: Message edited by: I-bent-my-wookie ]</p>
Along with Keynote, Filemaker and Mail, there's your alternate Office suite.
Two things:
1. Will Filemaker really be brought "under the tent" i.e. merged with the Claris/Gobe team that seems to be in charge of the MacOffice division? Steve's got an excellent sense of branding and I can't see him releasing three apps with a similar brand and box and leave the fourth looking completely different.
2. What about the Microsoft response?
I think, to be safe, Apple has to have versions of the Word-processor and spreadsheet available for Windows, which they threaten to release if Microsoft goes all anti-competitive on them. Keynote is too heavily relient on Quartz to be ported and Filemaker's already on the other side. I think this could be where the persistent "OS X on X86" rumors are always coming from.
Of course, I could be wrong... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong> Keynote is too heavily relient on Quartz to be ported </strong><hr></blockquote>
Believe me, displaying and resizing PDF's (which is essentially what Quartz is) would be far faster on PCs with their faster memory and bus than is the case on Macs.
I'm not suggesting that Apple is moving Keynote or any other Quartz-using app to Windows, I'm just suggesting that Quartz is not a showstopper if they wanted to go that way. Personally, I don't think Apple has any short term plans to go after Microsoft's office applications given the experience companies like IBM and Corel had. MS' competitive reaction - tons of advertising, new upgrades and new low pricing - would force the competitor back to the trenches, so why bother trying.
Believe me, displaying and resizing PDF's (which is essentially what Quartz is) would be far faster on PCs with their faster memory and bus than is the case on Macs.
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Boy, do you need to read up on Quartz!!! <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
I don't think that threat would scare anyone in Redmond. I think that would be a horrible waste of R&D money too.
<strong>a link was posted on slashdot recently to one of the original authors' account of its original development, which was pretty interesting:
<a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1559223&tid=156" target="_blank">http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/23/1559223&tid=156</a></strong><hr></blockquote>
Welcome to the AppleInsider forums! And thanks for the link. That's good reading.
Wow. Beagle Bros! I feel old...
[ 02-19-2003: Message edited by: Amorph ]</p>
Anyway, why would Apple release Keynote and the supposed others for windows? If they're so much better than office, people would just buy those and stay on Wintels. That doesn't get a switcher if they only buy the software. A better scenerio is to have presentions at Apple Stores showing how much better these apps are then Office.
I just noticed in the reader feedback for the "history of Claris," a claim by one reader that they were asked to beta test "the new AppleWorks." If it's in beta, it's not going to be that long in coming. I can believe April.
/me talks nicely to Mr Credit Card
We already have something like that.
basically any app with the word Microsoft before it.