On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:36 PM, LuKreme wrote: > Nathan Sims squawked out on Tuesday 10-Apr-2012@18:51:47 >> I was running Pages '09 and got fed up with all the bugs, so I went to the >> App Store thinking there must surely be a new version in the 3 years since I >> bought it. Nope! The app suite looks abandoned, at least for the Mac: Pages, >> Keynote, Numbers all are stuck at '09. Can anyone confirm this? > > The most recent update to Pages and Numbers was in the summer last year for > Lion, and there was an update to Keynote in December. > > <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4684?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US> > That update is mainly for Lion compatibility, no real new development, which I guess is why they're still '09 apps. It does indicate they're not quite "dead", per se, but hardly front burner apps. I think even Apple is a little embarassed by it, since any reference to '09 has been removed from iWork, Pages, Keynote or Numbers until you drill down to the App Store product spec page.
> I use Pages and an quite happy with it. It's a lot more stable than Word. I > think the failure of OOo and variants is they are trying too hard to be exact > clones of MS Office. If I wanted MS Office, I'd use MS Office. Obviously, I > don't want that, so an exact clone of it to me just sucks. Funny, the first impression I got from using Pages is that it is far too similar to Word for my taste. I was hoping for something more like FrameMaker, but yeah then it wouldn't be compatible with Word, etc., so I guess there's no perfect solution... _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
