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Originally Posted by El Gato
Meh, the article says that it's aimed at consumers and is not a direct competitor to Excel. I still hope they include a nice selection of eq…
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Originally Posted by greenamp
Yeah but see the thing is, most people who use excel only use the basic stuff, like simple forumlas, customized tables, pie charts, etc. An …
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Think Secret have a high degree of reliability.
The thing is, they predicted that a spreadsheet app would be released as part of…
I think they admitted to having a not-very-high confidence level for last year's spreadsheet prediction, so they covered their ass a little. This time around, it'll look worse if t…
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
Yeah, no kidding. They bundled AppleWorks, why can't they bundle iWork? Get it some installed base.
Bingo... there simply isn't an inst…
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Originally Posted by production_coordinator
Bingo... there simply isn't an install base. I use Keynote on a regular basis, but have yet to find many others using it (and …
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Originally Posted by Cadaver
I love Keynote, personally. I never use PowerPoint any more.
Even when I give lectures at large, national meetings where they want all the ta…
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Originally Posted by production_coordinator
I only wish they would build iWork/iLife into the OS (and tack on another $20-$40 to the price).
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Originally Posted by nforcer
I disagree. Keep them separate and let people buy them as needed. Bundling them together and increasing the cost of the OS is what I call "…
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Originally Posted by production_coordinator
This isn't politics... it's business. I think if there was a wider user base, it could be broken off in the future. Also, it a…
Well, the thing about iWork is that it's not selling too well right now. If they bundle it with Macs, then they would dramatically increase its installed base. This could result in…
There's a BIG difference between bundling it with the OS and bundling it with the machines.
Bundling it with the OS means either giving it away for free (which means it won't be d…
perhaps the reason it's not selling well is because Pages is a crapy jolty program. Keynote is great! If Charts turns out to be like Pages or Aperature.....nobody will buy it. Q…
I completely agree with barney ntd. They should at least bundle it on the consumer-targeted Macs. They could still sell it separately for "Pro" Mac users or people who want the nex…
Apple already bundles an iWork tryout with Macs, as well as a MS Office tryout. I wonder if Apple isn't bundling the full iWork to keep MS happy.
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
Apple already bundles an iWork tryout with Macs, as well as a MS Office tryout. I wonder if Apple isn't bundling the full iWork to keep MS…
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
Again, Apple bundled AppleWorks with Macs for years. The old Performas had it bundled on them back in the 90s, all the way up to my iMac G5 …
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Originally Posted by nforcer
It was hard not to draw a political comparison. I should have left it in the lounge.
Yeah, probably so.
I agree with your main point th…
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Originally Posted by nforcer
I don't know; AppleWorks has not been a threat since the OS 9 days. With everything so laughably dated and bad in AppleWorks, I can't help b…
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
Yeah, no kidding. They bundled AppleWorks, why can't they bundle iWork? Get it some installed base.
I agree. I bet there are more Mac …
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Originally Posted by besson3c
I agree. I bet there are more Mac users using Open or NeoOffice than iWork, simply because I don't see the logic in paying that kind of brea…
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Originally Posted by besson3c
I agree. I bet there are more Mac users using Open or NeoOffice than iWork, simply because I don't see the logic in paying that kind of brea…