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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1509646"><p>Despite being made by the same company, iOS and OS X are two different operating systems and for most apps that appear on both platforms, you pay separately. This is true of Pages as well (part of the former "iWork suite") but both are priced as oldscribe said at "giveaway" prices by comparison with competitors such as MS Office.</p><p></p><p>I have LibreOffice and it will do in a pinch, and certainly the price is right, but ... I'm kind of an elegance junkie (that's why I went with Apple in the first place, and why I stick with them today), so to my eyes Pages (etc) simply blows LibreOffice (et al) out of the water. I acknowledge there are other scenarios where the advantages of iWork apps isn't so clear-cut, but for me it's been utterly fabulous and one of the better software values around IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1509646"] Despite being made by the same company, iOS and OS X are two different operating systems and for most apps that appear on both platforms, you pay separately. This is true of Pages as well (part of the former "iWork suite") but both are priced as oldscribe said at "giveaway" prices by comparison with competitors such as MS Office. I have LibreOffice and it will do in a pinch, and certainly the price is right, but ... I'm kind of an elegance junkie (that's why I went with Apple in the first place, and why I stick with them today), so to my eyes Pages (etc) simply blows LibreOffice (et al) out of the water. I acknowledge there are other scenarios where the advantages of iWork apps isn't so clear-cut, but for me it's been utterly fabulous and one of the better software values around IMO. [/QUOTE]
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