Apple's iWork Selling Well
News.com cites data from NPD which reports that Apple's iWork has achieved a 2.7% unit share in 2005 "Office Suite" U.S. Retail Sales. This edges out Corel's WordPerfect Office which has as 1.6% share.
Microsoft Office, of course, carries approximately 95% of the remaining unit sales. When limiting the data to Mac sales only, Apple's iWork carries a 17.4% share compared to 82% for Microsoft.
As with all statistics, these numbers must be taken in context. Corel notes that these sales do not take into account commercial sales and distributor bundles which would likely rival iWork total sales. Regardless, it represents a notable accomplishment.
Apple updated iWork earlier this year and has been rumored to add a spreadsheet component.
Apple's share is particularly impressive considering that iWork runs only on Macs, which account for a small fraction of computers, said NPD analyst Chris Swenson. "Apple's success for iWork has been pretty surprising," he said.
Microsoft Office, of course, carries approximately 95% of the remaining unit sales. When limiting the data to Mac sales only, Apple's iWork carries a 17.4% share compared to 82% for Microsoft.
As with all statistics, these numbers must be taken in context. Corel notes that these sales do not take into account commercial sales and distributor bundles which would likely rival iWork total sales. Regardless, it represents a notable accomplishment.
Apple updated iWork earlier this year and has been rumored to add a spreadsheet component.
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79 months ago
Well, that's nice to hear. I had no idea iWork was selling at all, what with it having neither a spreadsheet nor word processing app.
79 months ago
I cannot understand why people are buying ms office becaus openoffice is free and has more opions than 99% of all the people need.
79 months ago
I have the trial and I'm thinking about buying. It is very nicely laid out, I just want to make keynotes as nice as Steaves!
79 months ago
word processing app.
Pages is a good enough word processing app. I'm betting not everytime people open it they're going to use it make a brochure or something. There are definitely things it does better than Microsoft Word in terms of word processing.
79 months ago
I had iWork '05 and ran Word alongside. I updated to iWork '06 and banished Word from my Mac forever. I am totally M$ free. :D
Frankly for me M$ Office is overkill. Entourage is clunky, Word is bloated, Excel was useless to me and Powerpoint was a hit and miss experience. When I consider the stable and more user friendly Apple alternatives I can't imagine why I would ever have it back clogging up my ram and chewing up space on my hard drive.
Perhaps a lot of other Mac users have started to feel the same way (especially with the obvious disregard to Mac users M$ have recently displayed) and have migrated to iWork '06 as a stress free alternative.
Frankly for me M$ Office is overkill. Entourage is clunky, Word is bloated, Excel was useless to me and Powerpoint was a hit and miss experience. When I consider the stable and more user friendly Apple alternatives I can't imagine why I would ever have it back clogging up my ram and chewing up space on my hard drive.
Perhaps a lot of other Mac users have started to feel the same way (especially with the obvious disregard to Mac users M$ have recently displayed) and have migrated to iWork '06 as a stress free alternative.
79 months ago
I didn't realise WordPerfect Suite was still being sold. I thought, Novell.. Borland, nope.. errr..... Corel had given up on it. ( WP has been sold on more times than a hooker ;-) ).
Personally, I always thought WP was a far better word processor than Word - and generally, far more innovative ( in the 90s ).
Personally, I always thought WP was a far better word processor than Word - and generally, far more innovative ( in the 90s ).
79 months ago
I cannot understand why people are buying ms office becaus openoffice is free and has more opions than 99% of all the people need.
Probably because Open Office is big, slow and un-mac-like. NeoOffice makes it more mac-like, but still big and slow.
79 months ago
I cannot understand why people are buying ms office becaus openoffice is free and has more opions than 99% of all the people need.
Compared to MS Word, OpenOffice is just clunky and sucks.
Compared to WordPerfect, MS Word is just clunky and sucks.
I just sent an email to Corel telling them if they will re-release WordPerfect for Tiger and include ODF support, I will buy it.
79 months ago
I was very surprised that iWork didn't get a spreadsheet this year. Maybe in iWork '07....
Personally, I still use AppleWorks when I don't have to share my documents, but many people still need Office, simply because everyone else still has office.
I cannot understand why people are buying ms office becaus openoffice is free and has more opions than 99% of all the people need.
Simple. Interoperability between Word and Writer is not perfect yet. I've had situations where I was handed a Word doc that got mangled when I tried to edit it in OpenOffice. I spent half an hour re-editing it in Word (on a PC, no less) and then I spent the money to buy Office.Personally, I still use AppleWorks when I don't have to share my documents, but many people still need Office, simply because everyone else still has office.
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