This may explain why there is no spreadsheet in iWork.

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This may explain why there is no spreadsheet in iWork.

Actually, the story I heard was that there wasn't enough room on the CD. So the offshore contractor who wrote iWeb and the offshore contractor who wrote Numbers were told to fight it out. Turns out that the contractor who wrote iWeb had access to missiles (he claims to be a distant cousin of Saddam and has a vacation condo in Damascus). So the contractor who wrote Numbers decided to forego the US$200 bonus and work on an improved compression app for next year.

I wonder why they didn't use a DVD, they would have had room for plenty of room for Numbers and the other items. I was thinking that Office is important to Mac sales and Steve was playing politics with the Man of the Year.

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Bosco wrote:

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This may explain why there is no spreadsheet in iWork.

Actually, the story I heard was that there wasn't enough room on the CD. So the offshore contractor who wrote iWeb and the offshore contractor who wrote Numbers were told to fight it out. Turns out that the contractor who wrote iWeb had access to missiles (he claims to be a distant cousin of Saddam and has a vacation condo in Damascus). So the contractor who wrote Numbers decided to forego the US$200 bonus and work on an improved compression app for next year.

Spreadsheets are overrated. Ninety percent of Excel users just use it like a two-dimensional array (a simple database). A few "advanced" users make sums and averages and such for groups of cells. Power users who actually build business applications in Excel are pretty rare. So, I think it's more that there's not a market for it.

What Apple really need do is release Data, a simple-to-use database application that is import/export compatible with Microsoft Access. When I try to convince business users to go Mac, that's the one app I always have to admit there isn't an equivalent to. Yes, I know there are databases for the Mac. What I mean is there is no drag-and-drop, push some buttons and get a report, kind of application for the Mac. Is there?

"What I mean is there is no drag-and-drop, push some buttons and get a report, kind of application for the Mac. Is there?"

Doesn't File-Maker do all this?

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I wonder why they didn't use a DVD, they would have had room for plenty of room for Numbers and the other items. I was thinking that Office is important to Mac sales and Steve was playing politics with the Man of the Year.

Truth be told (and this is really inside dirt I'm sharing, so don't repeat it or say where you heard it), the offshore contractor who wrote Numbers was dislexic and generally bad at math. While the spreadsheets are beautiful the way only Apple software can be, some of the functions didn't work too well. One sample document showed the cost breakdown of the new Intel iMac. While the component prices seem to total thousands of dollars, the SUM(A1...A28) function adds up to $999, yielding a 30% profit margin when priced at $1299. This problem would probably send any company that doesn't make iPods into financial oblivion. So Steve made up the story about not having any room on the CD to see if he could get the contractor who wrote Numbers to quietly go get an outsourced phone support job from Dell.

iWeb is in iLife, not iWork.

Saw a link that should help importing Access data to FileMaker:

http://www.actualtechnologies.com/product_access.php

Actually, I wanted to see Numbers and FileMaker Express in iWork 06. I have to use formulas for some spreadsheets and am stuck with Excel for now. Agghhh!

Maybe MWSF 07 . . .