With Microsoft office dominating the market ever since word processing came out the cave, Steve Jobs created iWork which is a mirror of Office, created for the iMac. It’s no surprise either, seeing as Microsoft Office for the Apple is the best selling third-party software for the iMacs.
iWork contains all the same concepts of Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and Excel but as with all things Apple, is incredibly easier to use. It also looks a tonne better than any office programs on a PC. Selling for $79, will it be popular?
If you ask me, at the end of the day, no matter how much more beautiful or easy to use or convenient the new software is, you will never see PC users buying iWork. Why? Because once a market is dominated by such a large percentage, people become used to what they’ve been using; not everyone likes change.
Agree? Disagree? Let us know what you think of the iWork software.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Angry Fat Man // Aug 10, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I’m sure it’s a great piece of software.
However, I use Open Office. It’s free, which is $79 cheaper than iWork and hundreds cheaper than that awful office suite from the other company.
2 Let the world know // Sep 12, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Open Office is great, but development is slow. And they, in my honest opinion, are too much inspired by the guys in Redmond. Don’t like it. Why copy bloat?
iWorks ‘08 is great. Does what it needs to do, without bloat and high cost. Previous version of iWorks did not cut it, the latest version however, does.
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