On 19/11/2013, at 4:50 PM, David Nicholas <david...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Ronni > > I'm interested and confused by your reply to Alan. Perhaps you have already > dealt with the issues I will raise, and if so I'm sorry I didn't read more > carefully before. > > After I read your reply to Alan I did a search and discovered that there are > new versions of > > iPhoto - 9.5 I have 11 9.4.3 > iMovie - 10.0 I have 11 9.0.9 > GarageBand Not currently using it > Pages - 5.0 I have 09 4.3 > Numbers Not currently using it > Keynote - 6.0 I have 09 5.3 > > In the blurb, Apple of course claim that the new Apps are so much better. I > use iPhoto, iMovie and Pages a lot, and Keynote a little. If I want to > continue using them, do I have to do something or can I just carry on and > resolutely refuse to download any associated Apps? > > Or, are the new Apps worth downloading for the "improved" experience? > > David > It is becoming increasingly widely acknowledged that the new iWork apps are not to be regarded as "upgrades" to their existing counterparts, and to anyone who has used the new versions this will be patently obvious. What we are seeing in the Mavericks versions is the first version of a more unified software platform which works exactly the same in Mac OS X as it does in iOS. Given the huge differences in the capabilities of the respective hardware platforms, this will be no mean feat! Apple have made it clear that over the next six months or so we will see a gradual return to iWork of the most sorely-missed features, but there will be full feature-parity on both platforms. We already have full file parity with the latest version, which was the whole point of the current "upgrade" first place. In the meantime, just continue to use iWork '09 for all your heavy lifting. Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
