However, Numbers is not at all an Excel replacement and that is going to cause a lot of grief.
Glad to know that Pages does a good job as a Word replacement. I do track changes pretty frequently and have wondered how solid the support/translation is for that feature.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_Design
Some great applications. I would love to have a direct port of all of them today. Of course I also want the shelf back and I want my menus on the side like NeXT. Oh well.
Keynote was created so Steve could have something that worked and looked the same as Concurrence. He would use his old NeXT to create presentation until Keynote.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2017/07/30/latex-ma...
If Pages works for you, great: but save a copy in a different format if you want to be able to edit it in a couple years.
I have been stuck multiple times with users upgrading Pages two versions later on a desktop and then unable to read on their laptop or vice versa. Inexcusable!
And the icloud version of Numbers is pretty handy when you don't have a Mac around (but the collaboration capabilities suck compared to Sheets).
If you’re even a halfway serious user of Excel than indeed, Numbers is a complete joke. But if google sheets would work for you numbers probably would too.
For simpler tasks where a spreadsheet program is obviously the right tool for the job, Numbers tends to be plenty capable and give a nicer user experience than Excel and clones. For example, a few weeks ago I discovered that Numbers is vastly better at doing time-related calculations than Excel.
Numbers fails completely when you start moving into the problem domains where a SQL database and/or scripting language are good tools to consider.
Unless you use some of the very special features of Word, or you're in a profession that requires Word docs specifically, Pages is a very good substitute. It can even open old Word docs (and new ones too).
I haven't tried Sidecar yet because the iPad is on my wife's iCloud account since she's the primary user and I'm not sure how to make it work across iCloud accounts, or if you even can. She uses it so much I can't get my hands on it!
defaults write com.apple.sidecar.display allowAllDevices -bool YES
For Apple, you and your 2015 Macbook Pro are just poor losers.
Now, You're free to buy a new one.
Duet Display's iOS component costs US $9.99.
That's how you know Apple don't give a shit about its user base, unless you pay 2500€ every 3 years for a laptop.
Why is h.264 unusable?
Why is removing a feature better than letting run a bit slow?
If a restaurant runs out of food, there are gonna be some customers who would eat a turd sandwich, as long as they could eat something, but most customers would flip out and demand to know who would think shipping that out of the kitchen was okay.
Now the analogy isn't perfect, but I imagine there's a host of reasons around expectations of support and experience that Apple has no plans on addressing for those cases, and rather than having a lot of time wasted clogging support with something that will just frustrate the average customer regardless, better to leave the few complaints about why they can't have it, since after all, your complaint doesn't cost them a dime in potential support calls. Just a vague feeling like you're not getting everything you want for the price you're paying.
If you've ever been to Disneyland, you can see historically, the park is jam packed with people who have that same frustration, each a paying customer.
If my assumptions on their product calculus is correct, I know which of those options I'd choose, from a business perspective.
For the 2 first catalina beta, you could still activate it with 2 command line in the Terminal, but these mother* removed the ability to do so in the third beta.
That's how I know Apple don't give a shit about me and my 2015 macbook Pro unless I pay 2000€+ every 3 years.
What a fucking joke.
dude, Libre Office wipes the floor with Pages, Numbers, etc. If you haven't tried open source office programs in the last decade, they've come a long way. And I find they work better cross platform (ie they save in MS office format much more seamlessly and less buggy)