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Quote: Originally Posted by Phone-UI-Guy Comparing the size to a closed textbook doesn't make much sense. Textbooks are generally more useful when open at twice the size of an iPad. It is correct that it can open to double the size of an i…
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vaporland wrote: » "hey kids, today's story is brought to you by the words 'hubris' and 'arrogance' and the number four hundred million" whoever dropped the ball at Apple on this one really screwed up. you had the sale closed, all you had to…
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I spoke with an old friend who is high up in LAUSD (former high school teacher of mine and now in a position to know) and it pretty much boiled down to wheels getting greased. It isn't based on merit, which is par for the course in the LAUSD. It is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Hey, yeah. The MP4 version never goes above 720, but there are 1080 streams for Flash. How stupid is Google, exactly? You're correct about the straight MP4 files but I think the YouTube HTML5 pla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot (I THINK Maestro64 was being sarcastic ... I could be wrong.) The fact that Hatchette could go to Apple and sell their books through iBooks is exactly how the free market is supposed to work. Amaz…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maestro64 But wait books are commodities and you should be able to buy the same book from any writer or publisher and everyone should be paying the same price not matter what. Hatchette should just give in and let …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ezhik Android had intents and notifications done right basically from the start. Still, does the Apple Polish (tm) make stealing things okay? Why are Apple fans always at war with Samsung, which is guilty of the same…
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With Apple being as secretive a company it is, a lot of assumptions are being made as to where their R&D budget is going. Unless you work in specific departments within Apple doing R&D, then no one actually knows. Even within Apple, a lot of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SDW2001 I doubt it's better. It's a decent product to be sure. It still doesn't compare to Office for business productivity and compatibility. However, I won't spend $100 a year as an educator just to be able t…
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ireland wrote: » Oh God please stop with that accounting crap. This was used as an excuse for the fact that Apple used charge $2 for AirPort Utility, and OS X, and other things, now they are free. It's a lame excuse. It was used as an argument aga…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar Actually, the "big FU" would be for those Apple apologists who insisted that those "neutered" versions of the applications were just fine when they were first released and that Apple didn't have to do an…
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mstone wrote: » Having parity with Office is certainly not setting the bar very hgh. It would likely involve an Office compatibility mode so that iWork could excel to even exceed Office capabilities in it's own native format. For example, I reall…
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mstone wrote: » I see your point, but if you don't care about being in the corporate environment, then why is it even called iWork? Sure the solo entrepreneur might not need to be compatible with other business professionals but is that niche enou…
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mstone wrote: » Wow! I have rarely used Pages for anything other than opening Word docs so I really don't know much about it, but you honestly put it in the same category as inDesign? Perhaps it is one of those situations where Pages does 100% of…
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mstone wrote: » iWork 09 did a pretty good job of opening and saving in native MS Office formats. Not perfect but pretty good. In corporate environments, people share a lot of Office documents, they make Word templates so all corporate communicati…
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Quote: Originally Posted by djames4242 Depends on your definition of "more powerful" I suppose, but until Page Layout mode returns to Pages, I'll continue to use the pre-neutered version I'm afraid I also vastly preferred the inspector (and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland Now make all the iWork apps free across iOS and and OS X without the requirement users to buy a new device, just like Mavericks. This would allow iWork to take over document creation. Just like how Mavericks …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram My problem is that this version of iWork -- in particular, Keynote -- is not superior for my needs compared to iWork 09. Lots of good and useful functionality has been taken out, and not enough that is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan And I would imagine for most people (non-enterprise) the free iWork suite will more than meet their needs. Personally I think this is a big FU to everyone who assumed once these programs became free Apple w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Clout There is an Office 2011 for Mac, but no Office 365. So I am confused what Mac users are supposed to do to use Office on iPad. Pay for Office 365 subscription anyway? Does anyone know? Office 2011 comes as pa…