• WhiteyMcBrown@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Perfect timing for some serious updates to iWork and iLife apps.

    Pages AI to help you write. Generative artwork to go into Keynote slides. or to help with a GarageBand song.

    It’s been far too long since Software was what got people excited to buy Macs.

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      1 year ago

      Does anyone even use iWork suite these days? Basically everyone I know uses Office or even Google Docs.

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        1 year ago

        Use it every day. Office makes me pull my few remaining hairs out. For generic use, iWork beats all the others in overall experience.

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        1 year ago

        I used them all throughout college. Office is just too unintuitive and Google Docs is missing too many basic formatting features. The iWork apps do everything I need them to do and it’s intuitive to use.

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        1 year ago

        I think Pages is superior to Word for pure design & stock font options.

        I don’t know who tf is using Numbers instead of Excel though.

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        1 year ago

        I still use Pages a lot of the time. It works on all of my devices and it has a few Microsoft Word-level features that Google Docs is missing. Mail Merge is a notable one for me.

        It’s not super important for most people but if you need it it’s much easier to use Pages with its built-in Mail Merge than it is to fuck around with weird privacy-invasive third-party Google Docs addons.

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        1 year ago

        Keynote is all I really use. I’ll use Figma one in awhile for a presentation (used to do it all in indesign). But keynote isn’t that bad. A ton of nuances to it but once you work with them, it clicks.

        But google docs over pages for sure. Not even a competition imo.

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        1 year ago

        I use it too but I might use it more if Apple looked like they cared to update them. They used to make a big deal about their big software features. I don’t really know what’s been done since iWork '09. (as in “the year 2009”). Going web only in some Google Docs copy or adding AI tools might be worth talking about.

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          1 year ago

          Hey the last update brought SVG support.

          I swear it has a team of 2 people responsible for it or something. Pages and Keynote (Numbers is fine but will never be Excel for better or worse) are really great software and I wish they had more capital allocated to them.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t see Apple going too deep into generative work considering the current murky legalities so I wonder how they’re going to do it in their Apple way.