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Why OS X and every single apple application so much better?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 680945" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>I downloaded the 30-day trial the day it was released, and then again after I installed Leopard for another 30-days (I know, that's bad). Anyway, the first thing I needed to do at that time was write up an SLA agreement for a project I was working on, and the very first thing I tried to do was create the headings and their associated numbers.</p><p></p><p>e.g.</p><p></p><p>1.0 - Big heading</p><p>1.1 - Sub-heading</p><p>1.2 - Sub-heading</p><p>1.2.1 - Little Sub-heading</p><p>1.2.2 - Another little sub-heading</p><p></p><p>After this, you should just be able to select the numbered heading you want, and it would follow on. So after the above, if I select Big Heading, it would be number 2.0. In pages though, it is numbered 1.2.3... useless. If you've ever written legal or corporate documents, or even worse edited them, you'd know this functionality is core. It shows the difference between Apple's target market, and Microsoft's.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, what about citations? You cannot simply set up 9 references in Pages, and then click them when you reference them, plus have a dynamic RTF or XML version of this that can create an automated Bibliography or Appendix. For ANY academic work, this is critical. Look at the top of this review for the screen shots</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/14/road_to_mac_office_2008_word_08_vs_pages_3_0.html&page=3" target="_blank">http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/14/road_to_mac_office_2008_word_08_vs_pages_3_0.html&page=3</a></p><p></p><p>The page layout features are better in Pages, agreed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well Quicken has always been way behind the PC version, 2005, 2006 and 2007 versions in particular. So it's not true to say the reason for this is that they had quit development. Quicken 2007 (released at the end of 2006) was significantly worse than Quicken 1998 or even MS Money 1999 - lacking simple things like multicurrency accounts(!).</p><p></p><p>Apps like iBank always look amazing (thanks to Cocoa/Aqua), but they often lack depth. Perhaps the reason is the relatively small market share, but when you look at applications like Aperture, CS3, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, the excuses seem irrelevant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 680945, member: 21101"] I downloaded the 30-day trial the day it was released, and then again after I installed Leopard for another 30-days (I know, that's bad). Anyway, the first thing I needed to do at that time was write up an SLA agreement for a project I was working on, and the very first thing I tried to do was create the headings and their associated numbers. e.g. 1.0 - Big heading 1.1 - Sub-heading 1.2 - Sub-heading 1.2.1 - Little Sub-heading 1.2.2 - Another little sub-heading After this, you should just be able to select the numbered heading you want, and it would follow on. So after the above, if I select Big Heading, it would be number 2.0. In pages though, it is numbered 1.2.3... useless. If you've ever written legal or corporate documents, or even worse edited them, you'd know this functionality is core. It shows the difference between Apple's target market, and Microsoft's. Secondly, what about citations? You cannot simply set up 9 references in Pages, and then click them when you reference them, plus have a dynamic RTF or XML version of this that can create an automated Bibliography or Appendix. For ANY academic work, this is critical. Look at the top of this review for the screen shots [url]http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/14/road_to_mac_office_2008_word_08_vs_pages_3_0.html&page=3[/url] The page layout features are better in Pages, agreed. Well Quicken has always been way behind the PC version, 2005, 2006 and 2007 versions in particular. So it's not true to say the reason for this is that they had quit development. Quicken 2007 (released at the end of 2006) was significantly worse than Quicken 1998 or even MS Money 1999 - lacking simple things like multicurrency accounts(!). Apps like iBank always look amazing (thanks to Cocoa/Aqua), but they often lack depth. Perhaps the reason is the relatively small market share, but when you look at applications like Aperture, CS3, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, the excuses seem irrelevant. [/QUOTE]
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