With the exception of a few changes to add support for iCloud, Apple hasn't given its iWork office suite too much attention since its release in 2009 - at least on the desktop, anyway.
Pages, Numbers and Keynote for iOS ($9.99 each from the App Store) each got a significant update today. But on the desktop, the anemic iWork Update 9.3, also released today, adds support for Apple's iWork 1.7 iOS apps -- and not much else.
Apple's iWork apps for iOS are actively being developed with snazzy features like:
Change tracking and roundtripping of changes (Pages)
Import and export spreadsheets with filters, and turn filters on and off (Numbers)
Support for various PowerPoint and Keynote slide sizes, presentation themes, master slides and preset styles (Keynote)
...but iWork '09 for the Mac only gets an occasional me-too upgrade
with support for new iOS features. That's lame. If Apple's going to
provide a true alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs/Drive, it
needs to update its desktop office suite more than every four years.
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