Apple

Damn, never heard that one before.

to make it do it for you, and therefore save a lot of time. I can write paragraphs, sure, but i can have an AI write a 80% passable paragraph in less than 5 seconds, while it would have taken me much more than that.

Look harder

That’s the point… it does things for you so you don’t have to do them yourself.

Still use Pages & Numbers. Doesn't compare to MS Office though.

I use it all the time

I still use Pages every day. Habit I guess

Keynote is all I really use. I’ll use Figma one in awhile for a presentation (used to do it all in indesign). But keynote isn’t that bad. A ton of nuances to it but once you work with them, it clicks.

But google docs over pages for sure. Not even a competition imo.

I use it too but I might use it more if Apple looked like they cared to update them. They used to make a big deal about their big software features. I don't really know what's been done since iWork '09. (as in "the year 2009"). Going web only in some Google Docs copy or adding AI tools might be worth talking about.

Use it every day. Office makes me pull my few remaining hairs out. For generic use, iWork beats all the others in overall experience.

I use it for home and personal stuff all the time.

I think Pages is superior to Word for pure design & stock font options.

I don't know who tf is using Numbers instead of Excel though.

I used them all throughout college. Office is just too unintuitive and Google Docs is missing too many basic formatting features. The iWork apps do everything I need them to do and it’s intuitive to use.

I still use Pages a lot of the time. It works on all of my devices and it has a few Microsoft Word-level features that Google Docs is missing. Mail Merge is a notable one for me.

It’s not super important for most people but if you need it it’s much easier to use Pages with its built-in Mail Merge than it is to fuck around with weird privacy-invasive third-party Google Docs addons.

what

I found it quite funny personally.

People who post just continuously whining about every little thing though is what makes Reddit awful for me.

See and I thought this was the best comment I’ve read in a while

One of the main draws for me is the fact that the same company maker the software and hardware, and that they optimise them for each other.

There’s a difference between the OS and the underlying structure/how it operates, and the software you use under that OS.

You can run MacOS but use Excel over Pages, or Firefox over Safari, still a different experience than using the same software under Windows.

I don’t think a new chip will be necessary, even if Apple might say something else. The potential of the currently installed Neural Engines in the iPhone has not been exhausted to this day.

For example, most tasks that require the Neural Engine still run smoothly on the iPhone XS/11