Today most upto mid 20 age people are spoiled by what they get and have, without having experienced or learned how things evolved. They probably nerver really used Pages (iWork 09) or MS Office to full extend. It's no need to use all the functions but just use many of them at a regulary basis. This way one learns and develops methods using the apps very fast for producing lets say 200 pages keynotes or 300 pages docs.
But when I see that students today it's sufficient to write a 40 pages essay to get a bachelor degree, I'm just laughing! At my times 20 pages were the introduction to a diploma work! Yes times have changed. But people are getting more and more lazy and dumber. The industry is supporting this trend.
Here in Europe upcoming teacher students only need to find half of the errors in a text,, to have the capability (no not competence as it isn't) to teach French or German language, without the need to know or explain why it is wrong!
Now tell me how are they able to teach kids why they made mistakes?
In hospital I saw nurses who weren't able to tell the time people are used to and not the digital version. The digital time is good but you have to calculate. With the analog version you directly know the time and how much time is missing to the next quarter or half or full hour without calculating.
All those voting that iWork 13 is better never really used Pages. I like the inspector window, because I know exactly where I have to change something. The multilanguage support in text boxes is of main importance for me as live in a country where 3 languages used by all the people is common.
iWork 13 lover probably nerver designed (DTP is design) more than 5 pages or do use Pages as a simple wordprocessor for writing 1-3 pages letters.
But people making money of the product produces by iWork need more functions.
I read in the thread that many users are happy to make a presentation with Keynote on the ipad. Yes it works for changing a ready made presentation. But my presentations are big with many special layouts impossible to do on the iPad. Plus the iPad version kills most of the effects and fonts!
As a teacher I need to have Keynote or Pages with many features!
I was really hoping that Apple was improving Pages 5 with more pro features. I want PageStream back (way easier to use than InDesign / Pagemaker or QuarkXpress) and many pro features not found in other DTP apps.
IMO Apple is going iOS only in the future, with ARM based Macbook airs. The iPad Pro (13") will come next year. See: Mac Mini, Macbook Air, Mac Pro… iPad mini, iPad Air, iPad Pro.
Now that Pages is free, people say "what an awesome app" but never have the possibility to use the previous version or know it even existed. Apple is following the industry trend: make people dumb so we can manipulate easier.
See what crap is on TV, see the rubbish on YouTube, 80% of the internet is of no real use, most medications do only have placebo effects, or look at the social networks: irrelevant infos are sold as important news (which they aren't), most products produced today are of very inferior quality than they used to be (or you have to pay 2-3 times than the
product of the competition). Or even governements: the actual NSA scandal is always sold as action against terrorism. Which terrorism? The last real threat was more than 10 years ago, since then no real attack happened.
The NSA is no other than industry espionage.
One can continue this list, people are literally held back to evolve. Only the upper 10% have the possibility the other must stay dumb in order to serve the upper 10%.
And Apple is no exception!
