GJMcKenna

Pema said:

That's brilliant. Now we need to round up roster of users from Antartica and Upper Mongolia who actually use the Apple equivalent of Office. In my entire time in IT and as a Uni Phd student I have yet to see anyone using other than Word, Excel, Powerpoint. 

I used Powerpoint for a few years to makes slides.  Then in Jan 2003 I bought the first version of Keynote and never looked back.  The functionality difference was astounding.   Ironically, Powerpoint is only now just starting to catch up with that original 2003 Keynote version.  I bought every upgrade for years until they started giving away the upgrades for free.  Im in the surgical field, and am known in the field for the quality of my slide presentations ,  and every presentation/speech I've given for the last 20 years has been created using Keynote -- and only Keynote.  I will never create a presentation on Powerpoint because it's clumsy, and poorly designed, and lacks the features for making and editing slides quickely on the fly, like Keynote does.  And quite simply the slides produced by Powerpoint are ugly.    If I'm ever giving a conference presentation where only Powerpoint is available as technology at the conference, I STILL make my slides using Keynote so that they look awesome, and then I export every slide as a JPEG and paste that JPEG onto the Powerpoint blank slides.     

As for spreadsheets, when all I need is a bland and straight forward spreadsheet , I still go with Excel.  But Numbers allows you to create so may things that are only tangentially related to spreadsheets, so I use it when I need something creative in design. 

Word is the only Microsoft app that I use every day as my primary program.  I only use Pages if I am trying to create a documentt that incorporates figures, tables and graphics as an integral part of the document.   interestingly, I use Pages often to fix any damaged and flawed Word files.  If the Word file is corrupted, I can typically open the corrupted file in Pages, and then re-save it as a Word file again.  

Transplant surgeon here

Eriamjh -- I spend a lot of time using very high magnification glasses during transplants, and I have no doubt the Vision Pro would be capable of giving outstanding magnification/resolution for the most micro of surgery.  

Mikethemartian -- Physicians would use Apple products during surgery in a heartbeat.  The most popular robotic system is Intuitive's da Vinci and it uses a 3-D immersive screen when performing all of the surgery (ie we do liver resections, organ procurements etc robotically).  And I have fully expect the resolution and clarity and experience for the Vision Pro to be exponentially superior to Intuitive's system, based on reported specs.   

JP234 -- All of your Chicago area surgeons are using the Intuitive da Vinci system I described above  and BTW 95% percent have less than 10 years experience... most of those surgeons have far less than 5 years experience.  (That being said, the surgeons at U of I are some of the preeminent world leaders of robotic surgery...).  The visual technology we use in robotic systems are far inferior than that of the Vision Pro (if the specs are to be believed).   It would be great if we could sync the Vision Pro technology to the da Vinci system at some time in the future.  I would not be surprised to see a future collaboration there.