"I'm the sort of guy who tells everyone he knows "buy a Mac!". I'm now hesitant, for the first time in a long while. "
You can still buy a Mac and use Office (MS Excel best spreadsheet on the planet), or Scrivener, etc...
Apple is distracted (perhaps correctly so) by the MASSIVE revenue/profit stream that is iOS. The Software revenue for the Mac is minuscule in comparison. All of their attention/energy will be pouring gasoline on the iOS platform, possibly to the exclusion of everything else.
The good news is we can ignore the Apps that Apple is churning out, and use the ones that make sense for us. I'm a 4+ year Aperture user who probably is going to have to bite the bullet and shift to Lightroom (perhaps 2 years later than I should). On the pro-side, nobody in business was using the Numbers product, so they aren't in any way impacted by the iWork news.
I do feel for those who used Pages (I actually know quite a few who preferred it to Word) - but, the old version of Pages still works, even after Upgrade, and, eventually, the Pages product will start to move forward again as the iOS platform evolves.
Overall rational and profit seeking move by Apple, even if it does screw a lot of their power users.
You can still buy a Mac and use Office (MS Excel best spreadsheet on the planet), or Scrivener, etc...
Apple is distracted (perhaps correctly so) by the MASSIVE revenue/profit stream that is iOS. The Software revenue for the Mac is minuscule in comparison. All of their attention/energy will be pouring gasoline on the iOS platform, possibly to the exclusion of everything else.
The good news is we can ignore the Apps that Apple is churning out, and use the ones that make sense for us. I'm a 4+ year Aperture user who probably is going to have to bite the bullet and shift to Lightroom (perhaps 2 years later than I should). On the pro-side, nobody in business was using the Numbers product, so they aren't in any way impacted by the iWork news.
I do feel for those who used Pages (I actually know quite a few who preferred it to Word) - but, the old version of Pages still works, even after Upgrade, and, eventually, the Pages product will start to move forward again as the iOS platform evolves.
Overall rational and profit seeking move by Apple, even if it does screw a lot of their power users.