David, I agree with you, to the extent that, as long as I can
remember, first learning how to use a computer on the Apple 2GS, I was
always taught that a wordprocessor was exactly that; a program or
operating system that processed words. So am I to understand that
wordprocessors have evolved into something more than a wordprocessor?
Spreadsheets, tables, forms, and the like? Would Excel, Power Point,
iWorks, iWeb, etc., be considered wordprocessors, if I were to
understand what some would have us to ponder? Or even mail programs
such as Apple Mail. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:31 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi All,
I just got a message telling me that someone went to an apple store
to look
at Macs and when they asked if the mac came with a word processor,
the sales
person said no.
Well, considering that Apple considers TextEdit a text editor and not
a real full-blown word processor, I suppose they were correct.
Especially since they probably said, "But you can get iWork 08 for
$79." Mind you, the salesperson could have said, "Well, Leopard comes
with a text editor that has most of the word processor functions that
most people use", then asked what they wanted to do with it mostly,
then made a recommendation based on what the person said they needed a
word processor for, but maybe that's why I'm not a salesperson.
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