AUGD: Re: AppleWorks on Intel
AUGD: Re: AppleWorks on Intel
- Subject: AUGD: Re: AppleWorks on Intel
- From: List Account <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:04:40 +0100
It seems there is even more pressure on Apple to produce a good spreadsheet
program soon then. If only Apple had a spreadsheet as simple to use, yet still
as powerful, as the old Lotus Improv. Closest thing these days is a Java based
spreadsheet available from Quantrix (http://www.quantrix.com).
Instead of huge spreadsheets with the same formula repeated in each cell with
minor differences to reflect location spread all over the place, all formulas
are held at the bottom. In the example Quantrix show (it's worth doing the
animated tour - very impressive) their software turns a spreadsheet with 237
different formulae into one with just 4 formulas. Amazing! Not only that, all
formulas use simple language and columns and rows and other dimensions can be
added, switched, moved around with a mouse really easily. It's a spreadsheet for
designers as well as finance professionals, scientists and business people. It
really offers a very creative way to work with numbers. It actually makes them
interesting to work with!
Quantrix is a company that cash rich Apple really should purchase, as
spreadsheets are one of their weakest points and this would make a great
acquisition for them. Quantrix would get huge increase in market share (assuming
they dropped prices a bit, but selling so many more copies would make that
possible). Apple would suddenly have a must have spreadsheet for financial
workers. And one that's a lot better than Excel, too.
Of course, Apple could always buy the rights for Lotus Improv off IBM, but since
they've turned their back on PPC processors, this may not be so politically easy
to do. Expensive, anyway. I'd love to have the Quantrix spreadsheet on my Mac,
but unless they go mass market with it the price will always be too high, a bit
like Steve Jobs' NeXT computer company whose brilliant software is now the basis
for OS X.
Just a thought.
Cheers,
Mac
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Today's Topics:
1. How well does AppleWorks run on Apple's new Intel systems?
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2. Re: How well does AppleWorks run on Apple's new Intel
systems? (Nicholas Pyers)
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Is there any info out if Apple will be releasing a new Universal
Binary version? Will it be an upgrade or a rewrite?
When Steve Jobs announced iWork '05 at Macworld in Jan '05 he clearly
stated that iWork '05 was to be the successor to AppleWorks and their
website and the presentations they had on ASW all stated this fact.
I doubt we'll see any major update to AppleWorks - certainly not an
Intel-Native version and maybe only one more minor bug fix, if that
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