Apple upsets power users with its simplified versions of iWork apps

Apple updated it iWork apps with a handful of new features that simplifies their UI and makes them easier to use. These new features, though, are not what customers are talking about. A growing number of users are unhappy with the features that have been removed and are expressing their displeasure online. According to a report in Macrumors, customers have taken to Apple support forums to complain about the suite apps, with many targeting Apple’s document editing app Pages. Blogger Pierre Igot summarizes the problem in scathing post in which he calls Pages an “unmitigated disaster.” Igot writes, Apple’s engineers appear to have chosen to keep the emphasis on “simplicity” at the expense of “power”. They have not just neglected to add features to bring the feature set of the application closer to that of a word processor like Microsoft Word. They have actually removed many features for no apparent reason other than to bring the application in line with its iOS counterpart, which is, inevitably, much less powerful. Features missing in Pages include a decrease in the number of available templates, the removal of the ability to export to rtf files and changes in AppleScript support that limit its usage. Are you a Pages or iWork user? Are you upset with the changes Apple made to the iWork apps in its latest revision? [Via Macrumors] Continue reading →

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