how you know they aren't serious people? Numbers is referenced almost as many times as Excel in the blog post.
First sentence of the post?
>My fundamental rule is Don’t, but a single word wouldn’t make for much of a blog post.
First sentence of the post?
>My fundamental rule is Don’t, but a single word wouldn’t make for much of a blog post.
That said the gist of the article is that don’t use spreadsheets for things that are too complicated. If you restrict yourself to simple things then Numbers is perfectly cromulent with a nicer UI than Excel.
>gist of the article is that don’t use spreadsheets for things that are too complicated.
the OP appears to have never, ever, met a problem where his solution wasn't "make it way more complicated than it needs to be" - go look at the first page of his blog for proof.
But, you're right: Excel is for the complicated stuff. I recommend Numbers to the vast majority of users in our company, who mainly want to organize tabular data, and will never do any calculations with it. The financial folks are welcome to knock themselves out with their Excel wizardry. That separation of concern / purpose works well for both.