“AppleWorks’ last breath was masked by last week’s iMac, iLife and iWork announcements – Apple has discontinued the product,” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
“Apple told resellers of the demise of AppleWorks last week, announcing that the software had reached “End of Life” status. It will no longer be sold,” Evans reports.
“The AppleWorks website (www.apple.com/appleworks/) now directs users to the iWork section of Apple’s website,” Evans reports.
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Bye Bye Appleworks, rest well, all the ground work
you have put in has paved the way forward.
Now this is sad. ClarisWorks 3 and 4, AppleWorks 5 and 6 (and did they call it Appleworks Office at one stage?). I have used them all, and will continue to do so. of course there were bettter, more powerful apps, but nothing as simple and convenient – and often, especially years ago, so much more verstaile – opening image files, saving as jpgs – when that sort of thing was not as straightforward as today.
Anyway it’s still my Word Procesor of choice. RIP and thanks for all the help you have given me.
Apple needs to take FileMaker 6, give it the ability to import AppleWorks databases, and make it part of iWork, call it “Data”. It would require little in the way of programming, and would offer a clear upgrade path.
Apple needs to add a simple PDF-based drawing app that can import Apple Works drawing documents (as well as PDF-based Illustrator docs), Call it “Draw”.
Then EOL AppleWorks.
I think for the most part AppleWorks’ painting feature are covered by iPhoto.
BTW can Numbers import AppleWorks spreadsheets?
R.I.P. Appleworks.
I thought AppleWorks had been dead for quite some time anyway. The last software update Apple released for it (6.2.9) was back in January 2004.
So my question remains, what is Apple going to do for a good word processor, if anything? Apple works was okay for what it was but I could never bring myself to use it. I think Pages is great and I keep waiting for a good word processor from Apple. So?
“f you have AppleWorks documents, you can give them a brand-new home in Numbers. They import quickly so you can take advantage of all the flexibility and power of Numbers ’08.”
http://www.apple.com/iwork/numbers/#compatibility
“So my question remains, what is Apple going to do for a good word processor, if anything? Apple works was okay for what it was but I could never bring myself to use it. I think Pages is great and I keep waiting for a good word processor from Apple. So?”
i don’t think that means what you think it means….
Good riddance! Appleworks was terrible imho.
Appleworks was a great deal for a long time, kept me from installing that insecure Stockholm Syndrome crap that is OfficeMac.
NeoOffice has stepped up to the plate and does a good job for most people. That’s what I use now instead of Appleworks on my Intel machines.
Plus NeoOffice is cross platform.
“BTW can Numbers import AppleWorks spreadsheets?”
Yes. Numbers can import AppleWorks (SS), Pages can import AppleWorks (WP) and Keynote can import AppleWorks (PR).
Currently none of the iWorks modules can import AppleWorks (DR) drawings or AppleWorks (PT) paint.
I hope they make AppleWorks a free download for .Mac users forever. It runs fine on Intel Macs. I also hope they create an ODF/XML export for Pages documents and allow Keynote to access the AppleWorks online clip-art site.
I liked Appleworks and used until Pages came out. It was a great app. Very simple. Very easy.
Well I thought it was gone a long time ago. I got my mom a new laptop about 6 months ago and it was not loaded on it. I just assumed then that they were indeed adding numbers this go around. The only thing that gets me is that they have done away with there paint program. It was useful for sketching out things.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pixelbasedfreemac/Free_PixelBased_Editing_and_Painting_Software_for_Macintosh.htm
There are quite a few free paint programs for OS X. Some are crap. Some are decent.
Try them out.
Sad day…but as others have mentioned, AppleWorks has not been updated in years. Not really sure why it was never updated either. It was a decent and simple application.
There is still nothing Apple offers that easily replaces the Database app or Drawing app at AppleWorks cost.
i still use it daily on my mac pro , the drawing app with the ability to add elements such as graphs , text , images etc is so useful
does iwork have the same functionality ??
So my question remains, what is Apple going to do for a good word processor, if anything? Apple works was okay for what it was but I could never bring myself to use it. I think Pages is great and I keep waiting for a good word processor from Apple. So?
@Mr. Peabody
You think Pages is great, but you’re waiting for Apple to release a good word processor? So you want them to make a worse word processor than Pages? What’s the point of that??? Or do you not realize that Pages IS a word processor, and a damn fine one at that?
It’s a shame. I still use AppleWorks, but have been looking for a modern alternative for quite some time. iWork may have to do.
Unfortunately, after version 3, AppleWorks was essentially in stasis.
AppleWorks, like SO MANY other Apple applications, suffered from the old Apple release-and-forget software syndrome.They release a decent application with loads of potential, but, except for few bug-fixes, neglect it, until it dies a slow, painful death.
Think Claris/AppleWorks, Claris Organizer (now Palm Desktop), MacWrite, MacPaint, iCal, Address Book, Apple Mail… the list could go on. Let’s just call it Neglectware.
R.I.P. AppleWorks!
I’ve heard that AppleWorks was neglected as part of the mythical Microsoft $150 million “bailout” years ago. Microsoft found a new and perhaps more diabolical way to kill the competition while appearing to “help”.
AppleWorks Euthanized? Mmmm… could be…
Nice to be right on top of this one MDN. This happened the day iWork ’08 was announced! I love coming here for the Mac news, and I am a huge Apple fan, but some of the comments MDN makes about stories are generally very irritating.
I was checking out the new iMacs at my local Apple Store when I noticed that AppleWorks was still on the software shelf. I did a double take!
AppleWorks is installed and ready to use on all my computers. Like someone else said, works fine on the Intel Macs!
I had AppleWorks for my //e and used it through jr. high and highschool. A buddy of mine got a //gs in our senior year with ClarisWorks and I remember being absolutely stunned at the font capabilities. It was a massive advancement, for the time.
“i still use it daily on my mac pro , the drawing app with the ability to add elements such as graphs , text , images etc is so useful
does iwork have the same functionality ??”
Not that I have seen. However, at a more expensive price, Omnigraffle is great.
BTW, Omnigraffle has a good demo and the ability to get “one day” unlimited use licenses.
Ah man…
Apple has had some beautiful apps in the past…
Filemaker, Claisworks, Macpaint…
big or small there always was a place, a need, to fill…
AND Apple always seemed to fit it well.
RIP AppleWorks…
AND say hi everyone to iWorks…
YOUR going to enjoy!!!!
So give it a spin for 30 days… it fits the bill and fills the gaps
Tommy Boy, I agree about adding a database app called “Data”. Would be way cool.
All three iWork apps have nice drawing capabilities built in already, though. I can simply drag in Illustrator files already in all 3 apps no problemo. One thing a lot of people don’t know is that Pages, Keynote & Numbers preserve the vector art (stretchable line art that Illustrator, Freehand, etc create(s) natively). MS Word rasterizes or makes a picture out of vector art, so Word is useless to me…well, for graphics, anyway, because I’m a full-time graphic designer. A good test is to drag an Illustrator or vector pdf file into Word. Zoom to 500% and you’ll see the jagged edges. Pretty sad. Pages, Keynote or Numbers will output nice pdf files with crisp, clean vector art.
AppleWorks definitely had its time and is still useful to some people. It was a great tool before iWork arrived in “05. The iWork suite does most everything I need and opens & saves most everything I throw at it with very few exceptions.
There are tons of free & cheap painting apps for the Mac, so no worries there and no need for the average user to have to buy Photoshop.