The gift that keeps on giving

I remember when I first encountered apple software: everything seemed deceptively simple. It was intuitive and easy to use, yes, but always came with the pleasant surprise of being far more capable and powerful than it at first seemed. For some years now, Apple has been pursuing the opposite policy. Now much of its software-- iWork is a case in point and Pages is the poster child--has been far less capable than it at first seems. The Mac version is a sort of joke -- more than 100 features that were in version 4.3 are simply missing, from the ability to set facing pages to the ability to link text boxes, auto-capitalize sentences, or select non-contiguous text ( not to mention mail merge). All this demolition was supposed to be in the interests of feature parity, but it turns out that that, too, is a fantasy. In Pages for iOS it is impossible to create or edit formulas in tables, which renders the whole idea of feature parity ridiculous. A truly lamentable piece of software.

999nickname about Pages, v2.6.1