When Apple marches on
by Christopher Breen on 25 March, 2009
In the past couple of weeks I’ve written about AppleWorks, Apple’s venerable, capable, but seriously-people-this-thing-is-so-dead application suite. On Twitter (I appear there in the guise of @BodyofBreen) where the hip kids hang out, this has elicited allusions to dinosaurs, System 7.5, cranky old men shouting “Get off my lawn!”, AOL, and time travel. The…
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Bento 2: closer to its potential
by Matthew JC. Powell on 31 October, 2008
When I first saw FileMaker’s database “for the rest of us” — namely Bento — last year, I immediately thought what a lot of other people thought: this is the database that’s missing from iWork. A lot of customers who’ve been clinging to AppleWorks for years longer than they should have are yet to…
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Bento by FileMaker (the other view)
by Matthew JC. Powell on 22 February, 2008
Back when Apple announced Pages and bundled it with Keynote, calling the resultant “suite” iWork, people immediately began referring to iWork as the successor to the long-abandoned AppleWorks productivity package. Apple, for its part, did not repudiate the description but was careful to say it was not a replacement for AppleWorks. And well it should.…
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