Post #1555746

@AshtonDev Weirdly, it seems like Apple chose badly when they *stopped* charging for iWork. Rather than making money from sales and turning that into new development, they stopped developing Pages to be a fantastic word processor, Numbers to be a great spreadsheet app, and Keynote to be the best presentation app. The key updates over the past decade-plus have mostly been strategic initiatives for Apple’s platforms, not the apps (iCloud sharing with E2EE, now AI flows). I don’t for a minute think Apple can’t make these apps true professional-grade alternatives to MS Office (or, in Pages’s case, even Adobe InDesign). I don’t think for a minute that, even while doing so, Apple can’t make these apps simple enough for beginners, including children. They can do these things. They just don’t.