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Apple Releases iWork '09

nauthiz said:
No Pages editor for he iPhone? Come on Apple how hard is that.
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A) I totally agree, my palm pilot had this capability when I was in like Middle School for Christ's sake. Also, many RIM lovers point to this (along with the lack of turn by turn voice GPS ability at the moment) as reasons to not get the iPhone or not have the company switch over.

B) For professionals that use Word/Pages in science/academia, the current Office is terrible and the added EndNote (which is for automatically citing from enormous databases of books/articles for paper writing) integration alone along with the stability of Apple products are worth the upgrade price. But as many of you are saying, if you're not a heavy user it doesn't seem that necessary.
 
I wonder if the Keynote Remote will work in '08. Its about the only thing that I got interested in in the entire Keynote, so I'm hoping I can use it without paying for an upgrade I won't use.
 
It looks pretty good actually. I ordered it as soon as the Apple store was back up. I had a few bucks in the bank saved for the 09 updates. :D
 
so iLife is $79, iWork is $79 for a total between the two of $158. But if you buy the Mac Box Set for $169 you get both with Leopard?! That seems to be a bit of a middle finger to people who already have Leopard. How about bundling the two together without Leopard for a bit of a savings?
 
I'll be interested to see if iWork still requires a license and if iLife will pick up on the practice.
 
I'm predicting iWork.com will be a dismal failure and shut down within two years. How many iWork users are there? And how many of those need to collaborate with other iWork users? Or more accurately, how many of them actually know another iWork user? I like iWork, and I use it. But I know a lot of people and not a single one of them uses iWork.
 
XY Scatterplot?

Could someone tell me if the new Numbers is able to do XY Scatterplots? That was a glaring omission in the old version.
 
commander.data said:
So I guess the Mac Box set of Leopard+iLife09+iWork09 shipping in late January makes it less likely Snow Leopard will ship in Q1. Doesn't seem likely that they would release the box set only to replace it in a month.
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And no mention at all in the Keynote.

Prediction: After the WWDC sometime in July 09
 
happydude said:
so iLife is $79, iWork is $79 for a total between the two of $158. But if you buy the Mac Box Set for $169 you get both with Leopard?! That seems to be a bit of a middle finger to people who already have Leopard. How about bundling the two together without Leopard for a bit of a savings?
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Mac Box Set = iLife 09 + iWork 09 + LEOPARD

To me it seems no Snow Leopard any time soon.
 
wordmunger said:
I'd be surprised if they allow uploading from a PC. There's no iWork on a PC. I guess maybe they could allow you to upload MS Office docs.
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When you upload to iwork.com you have the option to allow the document to be downloaded as a PDF or Word document.
 
The continued lack of scaling by %, just like MSOffice can, is still a dealbreaker. I work in the chemistry field and I must be able to scale my drawings by a % factor. Sitting here with a calculator to multiple the pixels or inches by 0.75 is stupid.
 
If they release a Mac Box Set with Snow Leopard in it later this year, I'm all over it. But the (frankly small) updates in the new iLife and iWork are just not worth the money to me - though I can see why they are to others.
 
i liked all the iphoto stuff, it's what I've wanted from iphoto since I started using it (with the facebook exporter). I'm almost contemplating buying ilife 09....maybe not though.
 
Apparently there is still no support for importing WordPerfect documents, spreadsheets or presentations. I'll look at iWork more seriously when it does.
 
Does anyone know when the Mobile App for Keynote remote will be available and at what cost ? there is nothing on the UK as yet :(

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HiRez said:
I'm predicting iWork.com will be a dismal failure and shut down within two years. How many iWork users are there? And how many of those need to collaborate with other iWork users?
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I agree. They should have at least offered Sharepoint support too.
 
I see that there is now an ability to open/save as MS file formats?

Anyone who has downloaded the trial, is it reliable saving? Does it format things correctly?
 
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