Apple's Charting Application
2006-07-06
Think Secret is reporting a rumor that I am inclined to believe: that Apple will be including a charting application in the next release of iWork. I actually predicted this more than a year ago when the Numbers rumors were swirling.
This makes much, much more sense than the idea that Apple will create a head-on competitor to Excel. Charting and information presentation is something that Apple can excel (pun intended) at, and will show how bland and dated the Microsoft tools have become. Apple can make full use of the great graphics capabilities its computers already have. Animations can be smooth and informative, transitions likewise. I expect the tool to build on the structured document regimen that Pages employs so that the chart presentation and the chart data are independent enough to each be changed at will with instant results. Think themes.
Charts, or whatever it is called, will fit very nicely into Keynote and Pages, and will be able to work alongside Excel and any other application that can export data.
This makes much, much more sense than the idea that Apple will create a head-on competitor to Excel. Charting and information presentation is something that Apple can excel (pun intended) at, and will show how bland and dated the Microsoft tools have become. Apple can make full use of the great graphics capabilities its computers already have. Animations can be smooth and informative, transitions likewise. I expect the tool to build on the structured document regimen that Pages employs so that the chart presentation and the chart data are independent enough to each be changed at will with instant results. Think themes.
Charts, or whatever it is called, will fit very nicely into Keynote and Pages, and will be able to work alongside Excel and any other application that can export data.
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