Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Aug 2007 18:02 UTC
Apple has released new iMacs, with a new interior (up to 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo) as well as new exterior (thinner, with a black back, as well as black 'eyeliner' around the screen), including a new keyboard, during a press event in Cupertino today. Apple also released new version of its iLife and iWork suites. iLife has seen updates on all its applications, while iWork has also received a new spreadsheet application called Numbers. Update: The Mac Mini has been updated too.
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RE: Numbers, just like the original Macintosh ...
by sappyvcv on Wed 8th Aug 2007 20:17
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I seem to recall Steve Jobs giving a demo of Lotus Improv on his NeXT workstations. Improve, the program where you could store multi-dimensional datasets where everything was properly labelled (none of this A1, A2 nonsense), and equations used those human readable labels; you could then squeeze that dataset into a two-dimensional format (the spreadsheet part) with things arranged as you liked them. It was a truly beautiful program.
From the Numbers webpage, it looks like "Jobs" (or whoever was responsible for designing the product) remembered the human readable labels then forgot the rest. It kinda reminds me of the original Macintosh, where all they saw in its Xerox Parc predecessor was the GUI -- and forgot about that networking and object oriented programming bit.