I mean Pages is free.
Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription
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#12If it's really fully compatible with docx files, I'm very interested in this. No matter the advances Apple makes with the M chips, Office apps are always slow to open. Not to mention the obligatory background services.
From the comparison image it looks like the goal is functional compatibility, not render compatibility. The table borders change and the layout changes.
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#13I've never understood the appeal of minimal writing apps. They've got beautiful UIs, but I could theoretically do everything here on a normal writing app, couldn't I?
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#14The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?
Indeed there's probably thousands of slop apps out there now with millions to follow. In time making pricing and profit go to zero.
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#15I paid about 5€ for a Microsoft Office key.
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#16The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?
Indeed there's probably thousands of slop apps out there now with millions to follow. In time making pricing and profit go to zero.
One good thing to come of vibecoding is native apps are less effort, so hopefully there will be more alternatives to Electron crap apps.
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#17So it's like OpenOffice or LibreOffice or Abiword but it costs money?
It costs money and is vibe coded. The worst of both worlds!
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#18Rather stick with Pages when it comes to that. Pages has certainly gone through some waves of where maybe some features were missing or something wasn't ideal, but 10 years later it's so fast and responsive, it makes any other Office suite behave like an old beat up horse.
You kinda have to try out Pages and Keynote etc to really understand why they are superior. Maybe not in features, but the speed at which you can put things in, tweak things, move stuff around and so on.
At least that's my personal opinion on this. I don't use these apps every day though, as I'm primarily a programmer.
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#19The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?
Yep, the website looks vibecoded.
Quite suprised this managed to be on HN first page with a fresh account.
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#20The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?
Indeed there's probably thousands of slop apps out there now with millions to follow. In time making pricing and profit go to zero.
there's so many apps, I'm sorta where murakami was to filter out novels he'd consider reading. A good app needs to be validated through the sands of time before I consider replacing something that already exists on my machine (and was probably free).