Rethinking Apple Pages: 6 Reasons You Should Try This Underrated MS Word Alternative
Is Apple Pages the underdog of word processors? Over the years, Pages has suffered the Apple Maps syndrome making everyone believe its just not good enough when compared to Word… or is it?
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I still remember the day I got my first Mac back in 2015. I spent the first week getting used to macOS (El Capitan) after using Windows for years. As I got introduced to each new native Apple app, I wondered where Word and PowerPoint were. I was so used to the MS Office suite on my previous PC that I just couldn’t bear the fact that Microsoft apps weren’t preinstalled on the Mac and required a license.
Then I met Pages, Numbers, and Keynote — the iWork Suite, Apple’s alternative to the MS Office suite of apps. I wasn’t convinced about the UI of these apps, like any other newbie macOS user, but I still went ahead with them because they were free to install and use.
But, over time, as I used the iWork apps more and more, I realized the fault wasn’t with Apple’s UI/UX or feature specs but rather with the preconceived notion that most users have about these apps. No…