During Apple’s event yesterday, not only did the Cupertino company unveil the new iPad Air and the iPad mini 2 with Retina display, but they also unveiled updates to their iWork lineup of productivity software, such as Pages, Numbers, and Keynotes. Given that Microsoft’s Office lineup of productivity software pretty much does the same thing, it wasn’t surprising that a senior Microsoft executive decided to take a swing at Apple’s recently updated iWork suite, calling them “watered down productivity apps”.
This was written in a blog post titled, “Apple and oranges”whereby Corporate Vice President of Communications, Frank Shaw, tried to poke holes in Apple’s recent launch. Shaw was also quoted as saying, “Surface and Surface 2 both include Office, the world’s most popular, most powerful productivity software for free and are priced below both the iPad 2 and iPad Air respectively [… ] Making Apple’s decision to build the price of their less popular and less powerful iWork into their tablets not a very big (or very good) deal.” Given that the first generation of Surface tablets could hardly be called a success, we think that Shaw might be getting ahead of himself here, but what do you guys think? Do you think that iWork apps are “watered down”?
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