[NTLK] O.T. AppleWorks vs. iWork

[Andy Taylor]

what I miss from Apple/Clarisworks is a simple but functioning  
database (I'm more than happy with omniGraffle for diagrams and don't  
use painting).
I tried Bento1 and gave it up when I found how appallingly  
dysfunctional it was. (I note Bento3 is still getting slammed by users  
who look beyond the gloss and ask "what can this actually do?")
Oh for a MacOS  database that can manipulate the db's of AddressBook 
+iCal+iPhoto (and plays nicely with Time Machine like Mail) that is  
good enough to call MacOS software.
I live in hope that Omni take up the challenge as Apple seem quite  
happy promoting whatever dross Filemaker put out!


On 20 Apr 2010, at 02:06, Don Zahniser wrote:

> On 4/19/10, Yeoleman74 at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Just for the record:
>> Apple Works had its origin as Claris Works which came free with my  
>> first
>> Mac A PERFORMA 450.
>
> Anyone interested in the history of AppleWorks/ClarisWorks might find
> this page enlightening:
>
> <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php#prehistory>
>
>
> - Don
>
>
>> In a message dated 4/18/10 11:41:28 AM, romad at aol.com writes:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I use AW all the time, but I have not yet been able to use any of  
>>> the
>>> iWork applications easily; it is always a struggle to figure out  
>>> how to
>>> do something in them. Admittedly I've been using AppleWorks since  
>>> 1984
>>> so I should probably wait another 26 years to see how I am using the
>>> iWork applications.
>>>
>>> But to get back to the present, iWork is in dire need of, at the
>>> minimum, a database application. Next it must be rewritten so that  
>>> only
>>> ONE application is installed on the computer, iWork, while the  
>>> current
>>> Pages, Numbers, Keynote and the future database (named Database?)
>>> applications are tightly INTEGRATED as is done in AppleWorks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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