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From: erilar on 5 Apr 2010 12:13 In article <hpctht$pmk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > I see. I had CW, then AW, then used MS Office stuff, now happily rid of > all three, and simply use iWorks. > > So, you can think of no lost functions in iTunes? I haven't discovered any so far, so I guess I'm safe this time. I haven't looked for a different word processor, because until recently I had to send anything I wanted to print from my OS X laptop over to my OS 9.2.2 G4, and AW has versions for both. My scanner and printer were both functioning perfectly, but too old to connect to the OS X computer. Not long ago the printer died suddenly and massively and I bought an Epson Artisan 710, which is a very nice machine. I just haven't gotten around to looking at different WPs since then. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: Jolly Roger on 5 Apr 2010 12:59 In article <drache-7741AE.11134305042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <hpctht$pmk$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > I see. I had CW, then AW, then used MS Office stuff, now happily rid of > > all three, and simply use iWorks. > > > > So, you can think of no lost functions in iTunes? > > I haven't discovered any so far, so I guess I'm safe this time. Maybe it's all in your head. ; ) -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jim Gibson on 5 Apr 2010 15:59 In article <drache-96CE73.18504504042010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <hpaphm$sef$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > In the post in which you replied to JR, the topic of improvements was > > related to iTunes. > > __I_ have been saying the same thing publicly about updates generally > since ClarisWorks lost out to AppleWorks. While I sympathize, substituting one application for another does not really constitute an "update". Generally, what happens in an update is that bugs get fixed, functions are added, performance is improved, and the version number is increased (there are of course exceptions to this). Occasionally, vendors will delete features because they consider them unpopular, too expensive to maintain, or the feature has an inherent bug that is too difficult to fix. -- Jim Gibson
From: Jamie Kahn Genet on 7 Apr 2010 07:15 John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > erilar wrote: > > In article <hpaphm$sef$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> In the post in which you replied to JR, the topic of improvements was > >> related to iTunes. > > > > __I_ have been saying the same thing publicly about updates generally > > since ClarisWorks lost out to AppleWorks. > >> So, are you now saying there's been no features wiped out in iTunes? If > >> that is so, what features have been wiped out in other apps? > > > > I'm not going to make you a list, but, having mentioned the one above, > > I'll describe the biggest loss in that switch. With ClarisWorks I had a > > long list of items from the pull-down menus and submenus that I could > > put on the desktop as buttons. I could also create macros and design > > the graphic on the button and add them to the desktop collection, all of > > which took up a fraction of the space of the severely limited choice of > > "tools" AppleWorks allows. AW would only allow macros as things to be > > assigned to "function keys" which I would then have to tape labels to. I > > could also save certain editing choices with specific document formats > > that were no longer possible. I found no significant improvements to > > make up for these. > > I see. I had CW, then AW, then used MS Office stuff, now happily rid of > all three, and simply use iWorks. > > So, you can think of no lost functions in iTunes? Actually I can - though really they've just become hidden preferences which is hardly user friendly <http://www.macworld.com/article/135501/2008/09/itunes8prefs.html>. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
From: erilar on 7 Apr 2010 10:27
In article <1jglsl4.10id1kv1m3fs27N%jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz>, jamiekg(a)wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) wrote: > John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > So, you can think of no lost functions in iTunes? > > Actually I can - though really they've just become hidden preferences > which is hardly user friendly > <http://www.macworld.com/article/135501/2008/09/itunes8prefs.html>. I'm also discovering intrusions into the way I WANT my settings to work. I'm not happy with the interface at the store, either. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo |