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Apple's Shifting Differentiation

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292 points kaboro | 1 comments | 11 Nov 20 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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burlesona ◴[11 Nov 20 13:56 UTC] No.25058399[source]▶
The point about robust collaborative editing as an API is interesting. The HN crowd generally prefers native apps and gets tired of the electron parade, but for major business software it’s increasingly table stakes that another person can see what you’re working on, live, by clicking a link.

Apple does have relatively good live collaboration in its iWork apps. Perhaps there’s a future API there?

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rmorey ◴[11 Nov 20 14:08 UTC] No.25058490[source]▶
> Apple does have relatively good live collaboration in its iWork apps

Does it? As much as i like the iWork apps, my experience (and impression of the general sentiment) has shown that Google Docs et al continues to blow the pants off iWork in that regard

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1. burlesona ◴[11 Nov 20 14:51 UTC] No.25058822[source]▶
I did say "relatively good" :)

I would agree that collaboration is a little smoother in G Suite, however in my experience this is mostly about ease of sharing. Once you've gotten another Apple user to understand that they can "receive a shared document from you" and work on it, then usually collaboration itself is smooth.