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Yosemite, is it worth it?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1627819"><p>Fair enough, my use isn't very collaborative so the compatibility with MS Office is a non-issue with me. I was *ECSTATIC* about the direction Apple has gone with iWork (no more "inspector," have always hated that UI form since Macromedia days), crucially and particularly in that I can work on documents on any of my iOS devices or the web if I'm not near my own Mac (that flat-out didn't work well in the old version of iWork).</p><p></p><p>I appreciate that everyone has a different workflow and as I acknowledged earlier the first release of the rebuilt iWork suite cut a lot of features a certain minority of people relied on, but as far as I can tell that has all been put back and then some in updates since then. I use Pages and Keynote extensively and don't feel like I'm missing anything.</p><p></p><p>As I've noted elsewhere, this is the iMovie story all over again, the Final Cut story all over again, the AppleWorks story all over again and indeed the OS X story all over again. You can like it or hate it, but Apple periodically burns the house down and sets about building a new, better house over time. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth for a while, then it all quiets down as the new house eventually beats the pants off the old house.</p><p></p><p>They've gotten a lot better, IMHO, about leaving you the old house for a while so you can continue to work in it as they build the better house (I still have iMovie 09, iDVD, Garageband and the old versions of iWork, all sitting here unused* though they all open in Yosemite) rather than overwriting them, so I often scratch my head and wonder what the hissy fit some people go on about is all about ...</p><p></p><p>(I actually do still use the old GB, as it works with podcasts much better than the new GB. So I have been [minorly] inconvenienced with Apple's rebuilding sprees, but even I will acknowledge that the new GB is way better for musicians.) Now if someone would just build a podcasting-focused app that could record Skype group calls to separate tracks ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1627819"] Fair enough, my use isn't very collaborative so the compatibility with MS Office is a non-issue with me. I was *ECSTATIC* about the direction Apple has gone with iWork (no more "inspector," have always hated that UI form since Macromedia days), crucially and particularly in that I can work on documents on any of my iOS devices or the web if I'm not near my own Mac (that flat-out didn't work well in the old version of iWork). I appreciate that everyone has a different workflow and as I acknowledged earlier the first release of the rebuilt iWork suite cut a lot of features a certain minority of people relied on, but as far as I can tell that has all been put back and then some in updates since then. I use Pages and Keynote extensively and don't feel like I'm missing anything. As I've noted elsewhere, this is the iMovie story all over again, the Final Cut story all over again, the AppleWorks story all over again and indeed the OS X story all over again. You can like it or hate it, but Apple periodically burns the house down and sets about building a new, better house over time. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth for a while, then it all quiets down as the new house eventually beats the pants off the old house. They've gotten a lot better, IMHO, about leaving you the old house for a while so you can continue to work in it as they build the better house (I still have iMovie 09, iDVD, Garageband and the old versions of iWork, all sitting here unused* though they all open in Yosemite) rather than overwriting them, so I often scratch my head and wonder what the hissy fit some people go on about is all about ... (I actually do still use the old GB, as it works with podcasts much better than the new GB. So I have been [minorly] inconvenienced with Apple's rebuilding sprees, but even I will acknowledge that the new GB is way better for musicians.) Now if someone would just build a podcasting-focused app that could record Skype group calls to separate tracks ... [/QUOTE]
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