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Does anyone use it? It's slow and doesn't do much that other things don't already do for free. This should reduce demand for it and put it out of reach of the global poor at the benefit of bringing in more money.

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Almost everyone (except some businesses who used legal) I knew used pirated MS Office until about 2010. Most of them are using LibreOffice by now. MS Office is getting increasingly rare.

Nowadays I would buy MS Office just because it looks eye-candy but they have seemingly abandoned selling classic Office versions. I absolutely refuse to use software that requires me to sign-in with an online account.

In my company there's no escaping Google Drive. It's miles ahead of Microsoft if you want to collaborate on a document with multiple people.

Google Docs*

> Most of them are using LibreOffice by now

s/LibreOffice/Google Docs Editors/

As by my observations remote-centric teams use Google Docs or Collabora, classic companies use LibreOffice.

At a glance an iPhone seems like one of the worst general purpose computing device for the global poor so in this case it's maybe not that big of a deal.

This is not for iOS's App Store, it's for the MacOS App Store (for the laptops/desktops etc.)

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