29.10.2013 09:05 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Power loss: Reactions to the new iWork for OS X

With the much-anticipated release of the new iWork, Apple has introduced the first major update to its office suite in nearly four years, with a focus on bringing feature parity between the desktop, mobile, and Web-based versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.In order to do so, however, the company ended up removing a large number of features from the OS X edition of the suite, with both Pages and Numbers boasting fewer capabilities and a general lack of support for automation and scripting.Dazed and confusedAs was to be expected, the reaction from across the Web has been generally negative--and not just from power users who put a premium on being able to integrate iWork in complex workflows.For example, an ongoing thread on Apple's support forums lists nearly two dozen features that have gone missing in Pages--everything from advanced search-and-replace to the ability to customize Pages's to

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