Annual Appleworks 7 thread
(Posted at MAF, too)
It has been more than four years since Appleworks has been updated. It may run on OSX, but it is a far cry from the pinnacle of perfection it was in version five - small, fast and to the point.
My father does spreadsheeting, databasing in Appleworks and it would be splendid when my father makes the move to OSX, there could be a fast, small and to the point cocoa version of Appleworks.
Some may suggest MS Office, but it is horrible overkill. Office doesn't even have a database feature! AW has had it since the beginning and does 99% of the people need.
Although the Mac may be the center of the digital hub for music, photos and whatnot, we still need to do work! It is 'computerally' criminal Apple ships pro macs without proper word processing/spreadsheet/drawing/database capabilities.
Lets hear for Appleworks 7!
It has been more than four years since Appleworks has been updated. It may run on OSX, but it is a far cry from the pinnacle of perfection it was in version five - small, fast and to the point.
My father does spreadsheeting, databasing in Appleworks and it would be splendid when my father makes the move to OSX, there could be a fast, small and to the point cocoa version of Appleworks.
Some may suggest MS Office, but it is horrible overkill. Office doesn't even have a database feature! AW has had it since the beginning and does 99% of the people need.
Although the Mac may be the center of the digital hub for music, photos and whatnot, we still need to do work! It is 'computerally' criminal Apple ships pro macs without proper word processing/spreadsheet/drawing/database capabilities.
Lets hear for Appleworks 7!
Comments
Nick
Everything that is in AppleWorks now is fine for me.
Just modernize it (sheets and other UI updates) and I'd be pretty happy with it.
I'd love to be able to never use MS office again.
Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
It's coming sooner rather then later. WSJ speculates such an introduction (need registration to read article - which I don't have).
Maybe its Apples fantastic new, Quicktime API based cross platform word processor ?!
Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
It's coming sooner rather then later. WSJ speculates such an introduction (need registration to read article - which I don't have).
I saw the article. It's just one line in a story that focuses on the lack of growth in Macintosh sales:
Behind the scenes, the company is working on other projects to jazz up the Macintosh. Among them: next generation word-processing and productivity software, according to a person familiar with the matter.
That's it.
I just mentioned over in the OSX forum that Core Image and Core Video would do wonders to Keynote and, offcourse, any other drawing app-such as might be found in a new AppleWorks.
One of my biggest complaints with MS Office is that the PDF files are rendered so poorly. This alone makes me use keynote instead of powerpoint. However, I have no substitute for word that is good enough. So when I place graphics from an app, i often convert it in graphics converter from pdf to jpeg-a real pain.
Overall, I can imagine Apple can make AppleWorks look and work soooo much better than MS Office, but do we have to wait for Tiger now?
Count me in on the wait.
No, I'm not serious.