Tomas Chlebek Current news from Apple are except hardware a operating systems also apps for work and… more work. The new version of iWork for iOS makes it easy, Swift Playgrounds teaches it.
At the presentation last week, all attention was of course on the iPhone and Apple Watch. A bit clumsily, however, a significant novelty for Apple's office suite, iWork, was also introduced there. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote have learned to accept input from multiple users simultaneously, in real time.
For each document, you can define who has access to view and edit, and each collaborator's activity is indicated by a bubble of a specific color and name. Such lively collaboration has long been present in both Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365, and iWork is now finally joining them and may be given the status of a modern office suite. However, the function remains in the trial version for now.
iWork apps with collaboration are currently only available for iOS 10, the macOS version will arrive with the release of macOS Sierra (20. September) and Windows users will also be waiting, where iWork is available in the web version at iCloud.com.
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Perhaps even more significant is the arrival of the iPad application Swift Playgrounds. It aims to teach anyone to program in the Swift language, which Apple introduced at WWDC in 2014, from the very basics.
Swift Playgrounds combines an environment with an authentic programming language and rich live previews, so the user can immediately see what the written code is doing. Learning takes place through short games.
Although Swift Playgrounds is clearly aimed primarily at children (it was announced at last week's presentation that over a hundred schools will include it in classes this year), it is intended to continue from the very basics to advanced concepts.
Swift Playgrounds is only available on the App Store for iPad and is free.
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In conjunction with iOS 10, a new version of iTunes 12.5.1 was also released, ready for the release of macOS Sierra with Siri, picture-in-picture video playback, a redesigned Apple Music, as well as support for the latest mobile operating system.
For God's sake, change the title.. Live collaboration cannot be translated word for word. Collaboration has a derogatory meaning in Czech compared to English.
Live collaboration? And the pig dolly with sky will be pig dolly with sky?
with pages it was always very irritating that even a simple page with a few words of text was at least 1MB because pages saved the white background as an image .. have they fixed this already or nothing?
I still consider significantly larger files compared to the competition and the inability to save in common Office Open XML and OpenDocument formats to be a major handicap of the office package from Apple.
There are more bugs that bother me more than the file size :-)
They just removed one, the collaboration only through the WWW interface, when I did something, my wife had Numbers open on her mobile phone and immediately the SYNC Problem... That was hell :-/ And the fact that I created a file in Numbers and the people with whom I collaborate they couldn't change it in their Numbers, it didn't bother me...
In any case:
– Inability to list images, list “attachments” in Pages,
– In Numbers, even 1 formula copied to 100 rows has really severe performance problems as such, not to mention more "complex" tables,
– Saving to DOCx/XLSx sometimes gives me problems with formatting at customers (it did when I tried it the other day in a company environment) and unfortunately, even though I would like to, I cannot use export to PDF, which is smaller and great, but I need for customers to process the file, or if you pay for the analysis, it is unthinkable to give them a locked file against modifications,
These are about a few that come to my mind right now, we'll see after the MacOS upgrade, but I don't know if they worked on more things and just "highlighted" the collaboration. Anyway, I have to say that when I know Office/iWork, iWork is more intuitive for me and I can do some things there faster and more efficiently, but…
Works is useful when you write and make tables for yourself
If you want to work with someone (and by that I don't mean your wife, but another company or co-workers), then only office. I would like to see a professional who works in an industry where he has to deliver documents to clients and doesn't have an office lol ;)
Yes, I regularly try to do it once every six months, when I get the hang of it and I don't mean only iWorks, but also OO, LO, etc... Unfortunately, then I usually go back...