Comment by qubex
2 days ago
The only apps from Apple I give a sizeable fraction of a dam about are Pages and Numbers, and hopefully they’ll emerge from the scourge of AI largely unscathed.
2 days ago
The only apps from Apple I give a sizeable fraction of a dam about are Pages and Numbers, and hopefully they’ll emerge from the scourge of AI largely unscathed.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but they certainly won't.
It's in the announcement and look at what Microslop and Google have done to their versions.
Yeah I read that but what I meant (and failed to express clearly, I openly admit) is that I hope it doesn’t somehow become core functionality you’re kinda-sorta expected to have. Pages and Numbers work fine and I’d be willing to go back to paying for them as was true back in the iLife days (I still have an iLife ‘06 or ‘09 distribution CD or DVD on my shelf in a storeroom) but paying a subscription for creative apps I just never use just to get stuff everybody will expect you to have in productivity apps is a path I hope they don’t go down. Incidentally what Numbers really lacks is a circular converge-to-solution mode like Excel has had for decades, that would make it a serious tool tor simple business planning and financial projections.