Apple productivity apps vs microsoft office

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Then came the MAJOR rewrite with all the missing features. I was a BIG user of Keynote from its initial release through iWorks 09 as it beat the heck out of Powerpoint. Unfortunately this has become the standard for Apple software: Take a quality product (initial release of iWork-iWork 09) and then dumb them down removing many of the features that made it powerful. iWork could have been (and maybe still can be) so great for Apple, but they arenвЂ™t updating it and/or allowing it to be opened up for development like Google Docs and thatвЂ™s killing this product for me.

#Apple productivity apps vs microsoft office update#

If Apple would update and bring feature parity across all platforms, IвЂ™d never complain again, but theyвЂ™ve havenвЂ™t and theyвЂ™ve allowed this to languish like many other things.

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And, then the iCloud version with even more features missing from both the Mac and iPad Apps. Next, they rolled out as an iPad App with missing features from the Mac App. TheyвЂ™ve slowly brought back many, but not nearly all of the features of Pages 09. The first iteration of the Mac Pages App was hamstrung by feature deletion. Then Apple went and tried to make it a cloud app. I did a 200+ page dissertation with Pages 09 and wowed a lot of my fellow colleagues with itвЂ™s ease and power, proving it was every bit as capable as MS Word, and even better in most cases. 2) ItвЂ™s is open enough that a developer base can also advance itвЂ™s features through add-ons from the Google App Store, etc. I hate using Google Docs, but it is far more advanced for two reasons: 1) ItвЂ™s continually being developed within Google. IWork is crappy! Not that itвЂ™s a bad product, but Apple has not given any of it much of an update in nearly 8 yrs. MacDailyNews Take: AppleвЂ™s iWork easily does everything we need (of course, weвЂ™re all-Apple here, so iWork offers seamless continuity across all of our devices).

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Tons more in the full article вЂ“ recommended вЂ“ here. But Office has the key advantages of working well across all platforms and fitting in easily with your existing Office infrastructure.вЂќ The more Apple-centered you are, the more iWork is plausible. вЂњThe good news is you really canвЂ™t go wrong with Office or iWork. вЂњYour iPad can largely function like a laptop with two of the three main office productivity suites,вЂќ Gruman writes. вЂњNaturally, IвЂ™ll focus here on how these three suites stack up in terms of functionality and ease of use.вЂќ That of course is for you to decide,вЂќ Gruman writes.

вЂњWhich of these office suites should you use on your iPad? Part of the answer depends on the functionality of the individual apps, but part depends on your greater ecosystem-namely, how your iPad productivity work fits into your overall productivity work on computers and other devices. вЂњOf course thereвЂ™s also Google G Suite (Docs, Sheets, and Slides), which includes mobile versions of the apps for iOS.вЂќ

Apple showed the way years ago with its iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), and Microsoft has validated the notion with its Office suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint),вЂќ Galen Gruman writes for InfoWorld.

вЂњThe iPad makes a great laptop, and nowhere is that more obvious than in its productivity tools.