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Sunday, May 08, 2005

Flipping through Pages and coming up blank

Spymac:

iWork ... bundled Keynote with a new word processing app, Pages. While coming up short of what AppleWorks once was, Pages represented Apple’s first foray into the writing and page designing realm since OS X became a reality, and it should’ve been welcomed with open arms and wallets.

It's even priced $20 less than [standalone] Keynote was, and seemed to offer everything Mac users were clamoring for.

But apparently, people aren't buying it. Even I, who works with words for a living, passed it up.

Of course. Pages is crap, because it answers a need no one has. It's not a good word processor at all, and can't be used as a Microsoft Word replacement. It's also not a good page layout program, even though in typical Apple fashion it offers some unique (and arguably Keynote-like) features, especially for graphics. Pages might just be the most confusing software product that Apple's released since Steve Jobs returned to the company. Does anyone actually use this thing? Seriously?

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