“I still believe Apple’s competitor to Microsoft’s Powerpoint elicits within me a flow of ideas and concepts which its competitors can’t – just trying to manage their layout and mechanics interferes with my creativity,” Les Posen writes for Presentation Magic.
“I must say that for many people the thought of putting Jobsian efforts into their presentations feels very unnatural, especially those time-poor, such as teachers,” Posen writes. “There’s a story of Steve Jobs being in hospital for treatment scolding his treating doctors for their poor presentations, and offering to coach them in Keynote. Jobs clearly believed that providing presenters with better tools might assist them with better presentations. I’m guessing he would not brook the argument that it’s not correct to blame the tool, but the carpenter for a poor job. For me, a poorly balanced and blunt saw will interfere with an accomplished carpenter’s efforts. Similarly, even the most expensive and exquisite Stradivarius will not make a mediocre violinist anything more than mediocre.”
“Apple made some major changes to its iWork suite, even though it named these as just point changes. It took the cloud based offerings out of beta, added new features, and improved iWork apps’ abilities to open old files created from previous versions,” Posen writes. “For Keynote 6.6… I want to focus on and illustrate the new build animation, Line Draw.
Read more and check out the video here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you’re still wasting your time with PowerPoint, STOP! Start using Keynote today. You, and your audience, will be glad you did.
SEE ALSO:
Physicists, generals and CEOs agree: Ditch Microsoft’s PowerPoint – March 17, 2014
NY Times reviews ‘Jobs’ bioflick: ‘All the sex appeal of a PowerPoint presentation’ – August 16, 2013
Microsoft’s answer to iPad: Clueless PowerPoint slides – January 27, 2011
Forget PowerPoint, enliven your presentations with Apple’s Keynote – October 11, 2007
Apple’s Keynote frees presentations from ‘Death By PowerPoint’ fate – November 15, 2006
Grab the room’s attention by using Apple’s Keynote and dumping Microsoft’s PowerPoint – April 12, 2006
Apple’s Keynote makes better-looking presentations than Microsoft’s PowerPoint – December 06, 2004
Clean elegant Keynote: ‘the anti-PowerPoint’ – March 10, 2003
Keynote cleaner and better organized than PowerPoint – February 18, 2003
Bill Gates on Apple’s ‘Keynote’ app: ‘I doubt what they’ve done is as rich as PowerPoint’ – January 09, 2003