Universal Binary and Appleworks

Well, since Appleworks hasn't had anything more than a maintenance update in several years (and the last maintenance update was a couple of years ago), and given that Jobs said that in iWork, Apple was building the successor to Appleworks, and given that Appleworks is not listed as coming with the intel imac, what do you think? 🙂

I called the Apple Store and got the following from the representative: "AppleWorks will not be bundled with any Intel Mac because it will not run on Intel processors." I assume this to mean no universal binary. I then asked if it was officially being phased out. The rep said, "I don't know, but I do recommend iWork or Office." I thanked her and promptly hung up in dismay.
Behold the last days of AppleWorks.....

On a brighter note, it is still available from the Apple Store online for $79 (free shipping, yay), and I'm assuming will run with Rosetta, but how quickly is another matter.

Best of luck!
Andrew T.

According to www.macrumors.com as of today... it is
supposed to official that AppleWorks will not be
updated for Universal Binary.

It works pretty well with Rosetta apparently.

But there's not a way in the world it ever would have been made a Universal Binary. The whole application would have had to rewritten in Xcode (it was created in Metrowerks Codewarrior which is defunct itself) and new staff hired. Apple were never going to spend tens of thousands of dollars (likely hundreds of thousands) to do this when they've acknowledged they're replacing it.

Dale