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Comment by sokoloff | Hacker News Reader

Excel, Box, and Zoom. Would vote for Cloudability as well, but that's not something that I use anywhere near every day.

Excel is a pain. It's annoying to open - if I already have Excel open and try open another Excel document I often have to click into a cell in the currently opened Excel document for the new document to open.

It's also a pain closing as it prompts do I want to save. Saving as a CSV is a pain, it takes two prompts to save as a CSV.

File recovery is also a pain.

I converted to Apple Numbers about a year after it came out, and both Excel and Google Sheets seem completely archaic to me now. I've sent PDFs of my Numbers docs to people and they are blown away. Now that I can share Numbers through iCloud to both Mac and Windows users, I've got some people fully converted over.

Multiple tables on one sheet that can be resized is a killer feature. It's just so easy to make nice looking data and output on one screen compared to Excel.

Agreed. I have a massive financial projection that I built in Numbers over the last ten years or so. Performance was an issue with early versions, but the UI! So good.

I still use Excel to interop with others and every time I do I find myself tearing my hair out at how painful it is to use.

Excel is great as long as you stick to the basic use cases. Start going nuts and it gets really slow. I think Apple got it right when they made their spreadsheet app have a much smaller table so people don’t try to use it for massive things

Also you can't open two Excel files with the same name.

I love Box. It's probably one of the nicest cloud services I've used.

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