Office 2016

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 13, 2015 at 02:15 PM

Paul: yes, I agree that Apple did do damage to Pages and Numbers, but they have made it (gradually) back up over the past couple of years. Numbers continues to be one of my favourite apps.

BUT… both apps produce the most enormous files! I’ve no idea why. Compare Word’s remarkably svelte little files with those produced by Pages - there’s really no comparison. A file that in Word weighs in at a mere 16 KB may be as much as 350 KB in Pages. Now I know Word uses compression techniques, and is basically a collection of subfiles grouped around an XML core, but why on earth can’t Apple do that?

This is particularly annoying when you’re using Apple’s apps on mobile devices.

Having said which, my daughter has been a Mac user from her earliest infancy, and doesn’t appear to give a monkey’s about file sizes. But that’s youth, eh? Spoiled by excessive amounts of storage… back in the day (mutter mutter mutter DOS mutter).

And I’ve gone back off Apple Mail again (at least on OS/X), because it keeps losing all my SMTP server settings. Very very irritating! So it’s back to Airmail for me (the latest version, only released a couple of days ago, is much better than before and has also introduced “slide to delete”).

Apple definitely have work to do on the software front.