Maybe someday Apple’s Keynote will again be useful. I expect to be close to senility by then.

by Compudemano

Keynote presentation power users: Don’t upgrade to Keynote 6 until you’ve read my experiences with the new version. You’ll save yourself much grief. (The news is not all bad).
[Via Les Posen’s Presentation Magic]

It’s now been a few days since the October Apple keynote announcing new products and services. Much to many Keynote presentation software users’ initial delight, Keynote 6 was announced, almost five years after the last significant update.

I write “initial” because for many, to judge from Apple’s own discussion support groups, and others on Yahoo, this update feels retrograde, with too many existing elements cast out, and insufficient hoped-for new features added.

Indeed, some expected they could open their existing and in some cases very complex Keynote 5 files and expect them to somehow be transformed magically into something ethereal. Or at least just work.

I did this too, only to watch a shopping list roll down before my eyes, of missing builds replaced by a default “dissolve”, missing transitions – ditto – and missing fonts.

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Yes, I am sure Apple is looking at a cohort of schoolchildren with iPads using iWork who eventually grow up in to adults. And that by then iWork will again be an adult suite of tools.

I am not sure I have enough time left to see that happen. It may well be that iWork will never be useful for me again.