Apple was caught flat-footed when ChatGPT and other AI tools took the technology industry by storm. But the company is now preparing its response and plans to develop features for its full range of devices. Also: The future of the Mac comes into focus, a cheaper Apple Pencil debuts, and the Vision Pro gets closer.
Perfect timing for some serious updates to iWork and iLife apps.
Pages AI to help you write. Generative artwork to go into Keynote slides. or to help with a GarageBand song.
It’s been far too long since Software was what got people excited to buy Macs.
I don’t see Apple going too deep into generative work considering the current murky legalities so I wonder how they’re going to do it in their Apple way.
Does anyone even use iWork suite these days? Basically everyone I know uses Office or even Google Docs.
Keynote is all I really use. I’ll use Figma one in awhile for a presentation (used to do it all in indesign). But keynote isn’t that bad. A ton of nuances to it but once you work with them, it clicks.
But google docs over pages for sure. Not even a competition imo.
I use it too but I might use it more if Apple looked like they cared to update them. They used to make a big deal about their big software features. I don’t really know what’s been done since iWork '09. (as in “the year 2009”). Going web only in some Google Docs copy or adding AI tools might be worth talking about.
Hey the last update brought SVG support.
I swear it has a team of 2 people responsible for it or something. Pages and Keynote (Numbers is fine but will never be Excel for better or worse) are really great software and I wish they had more capital allocated to them.
Use it every day. Office makes me pull my few remaining hairs out. For generic use, iWork beats all the others in overall experience.
I still use Pages every day. Habit I guess
Still use Pages & Numbers. Doesn’t compare to MS Office though.
I use it for home and personal stuff all the time.
I think Pages is superior to Word for pure design & stock font options.
I don’t know who tf is using Numbers instead of Excel though.
I used them all throughout college. Office is just too unintuitive and Google Docs is missing too many basic formatting features. The iWork apps do everything I need them to do and it’s intuitive to use.
I still use Pages a lot of the time. It works on all of my devices and it has a few Microsoft Word-level features that Google Docs is missing. Mail Merge is a notable one for me.
It’s not super important for most people but if you need it it’s much easier to use Pages with its built-in Mail Merge than it is to fuck around with weird privacy-invasive third-party Google Docs addons.
I use it all the time