Article:		Macworld Wish List for Steve
Subject:		iOffice = Appleworks
Date:		2003-12-30 18:04:44
From:		anonymous2
Ahem, heard of Appleworks? Spreadsheet, word processor, database, drawings probably pre-loaded on your machine. Apple already has a very capable basis for iOffice that just needs some well deserved attention to bring it into direct competition with Office. Appleworks never really had a decent presentation app, so Keynote fits very logically with the notion, don't you think? --mco

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• iOffice = Appleworks, well, not exactly
  2004-01-04 04:48:30  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  AppleWorks is not a Cocoa app. That leads to a few problems, such as not being able to open UNICODE based text files, not being able to use the character palette, not being able to use all the OS X services like spell checking, and so forth.
  
  Apart from that, it seems that Apple is not going to develop AW much further. International support has stopped all together already (the last updates are only available for Japanese and English versions), and a lot of stability problems and other bugs have not been dealt with at all. Add this to Apple not advertising for AppleWorks anymore, and sure like hell, this looks like no future for AW.
  
  What we need are Cocoa-based apps that integrate nicely, not legacy apps like AW.
  
  --Eric. (former AW user)
• iOffice = Appleworks, well, not exactly
  2004-01-06 15:10:48  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Carbon apps like the Finder and BBEdit integrate nicely with Mac OS X. The 'problem' with AppleWorks has nothing to do with the (misleading) Cocoa vs Carbon debate. It's simply that the features you note have not (yet?) been implemented in AppleWorks. There's no technical reason why they can't be either.