HI All I totally agree this is about creating across platform applications. The pain is bearable provided the period is a relatively short development cycle. Users who used the application for more substantial work will moan but my guess is Apple will shrug this off and continue to develop the cross platform system they so desire, this will ultimately cut development costs for Apple and as a business model I guess (I’m no expert) its future proofing and streamlining their software development.
I am not saying its a good move but as pointed out IWork 09 is still there, so I guess they anticipated this sort of reaction and will undoubtably at some point start the process of adding back in the lost functionality but this time making the application available for all OSX /IOS I wonder what the new merged OSX / IOS will be called …SOXI???? ;-) Ray Packham [email protected] On 25 Oct 2013, at 15:40, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is another side to this; > > Nigel Warren: > > The fact that iWork on the Mac has lost functionality isn’t because Apple is > blind to power users. It’s because they’re willing to make a short-term > sacrifice in functionality so that they can create a foundation that is equal > across the Mac, iOS, and web versions. It will take time to bring these new > versions of iWork up to parity with what the Mac used to have. In the > meantime all platforms have to live with the lowest common denominator. > > This is what I think, too. Doesn’t make it any easier to stomach if you > relied on features that have gone away though. And let’s see how long > “short-term” is. > > The full article at > > http://rarebitstudio.com/blog/2013/10/whither-iwork > > My own experience of the latest version of Pages is more positive. This is > because I've both listened to and rad what Apple has had to say about > equalising versions with iOS and iCloud. If you haven't noticed already, > iWork's 09 isn't deleted by the new installs and it still resides on my > system. And the new Pages does have an export to the 09 version. > > Early days I'd say. > > Regards, > > Tony > Sent from my iPad > > On 25 Oct 2013, at 15:30, [email protected] wrote: > >> I couldn't resist posting these images from one of the online discussions on >> this subject. Laugh? Cry? You choose: > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
