[muglo] Re: PowerPoint

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:17:43 -0500, Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Once again you are speaking tommy rot. Originally Appleworks was an
> Apple // programme , circa 1983 ish, & so many new Mac users in the mid
> eighties complained that MacWrite was not as good that eventually Apple
> came out with Clarisworks, based on the Apple //GS version of APW. The
> integration was superior to any Microsaft stuff. I could go on with the
> history lesson, but it is long and convoluted, but CW/AW was Never
> based on MacWrite.

You are indeed one of the politest individuals I've ever met :)

Seriously though, neat! So that is why the first versions of
ClarisWorks were so absolutely sub-par that they may just have
contributed to Apple's mid-90s doldrums! Integration is a euphemism
for: "it's not good enough to stand alone so we'll just throw it into
a package".

I have a strange suspicion we'll never agree on this. To me AppleWorks
and all like it are a joke -- full integration is a flawed concept
that, to this point, has yet to produce a competitive suite. MS Works,
AppleWorks, OpenOffice are all sub-standard packages because they are
all-in-one apps. OpenOffice.org has the most promise b/c it promises
to mimic Office but, as of yet it's just promise. (in all fairness, I
can't comment on MS Works since I haven't touched it for years)

Apple even seems to be acknowledging that AppleWorks is a sub-par
application suite and/or that integration is not all that it's cracked
up to be: let's see, Keynote, their new writing/layout application. If
AW were indeed as good as you claim, why is it that Apple hasn't put
R&D resources into that package and instead is starting from scratch?

What's next, a *real* spread sheet to go after MS Excel? (though, I've
seen pundits arguing that Apple wouldn't go after the goose that laid
the golden egg b/c if they go after Excel, then MS would loose its
lock on the Mac OS X market and, Apple would be at risk of losing
Excel (and, when MS stops shipping Excel for OS X Mac will start the
long, dark slide into Amiga-dom).

Eric.
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