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Their landing page does not really show much about this product. It looks just like boring powerpoint.
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> They have the potential to be world-beating (especially Numbers) Don't sleep on Numbers. It doesn't get a lot of attention but it can do some nice things in a much less bloated interface than Excel. It's had regular expressions for a while for example, while Excel is just getting them. I love being able to put multiple spreadsheets on a page and arrange them in whatever way you want. Reminds me of Lotus Improv [1]…
> put multiple spreadsheets on a page I’ve been hot for this feature since the Improv days — I browbeat the AppleWorks people to support it better, and when a bunch of them split off to build I made sure they knew this was a key feature. Ragtime still supports it as far as I know. https://www.ragtime.de/start.html?lang_id=en
It was one of the reasons I ‘got in to computers’(Macs) - it felt like it could ‘do it all’ and was so easy to use (at the time x86 based pc’s did not do the same for me…
Google Slides doesn't support WebP, despite google being the company that _invented_ WebP.
I have fallen in love with the opposite approach: IA Presenter [0] (no affiliation). It's just markdown and content. The rest is taken from you. 0 - https://ia.net/presenter
It’s a bliss.
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As a dev, I say more power to them. I support people using better tools for things. Maybe if we kept this up we’d all be using good things, and not stuck with MS Teams and Google slides because little Timmy in marketing chews crayons and can’t figure out how to use anything but the most basic software.
Timmy in marketing knows things you cannot fathom
At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here's why Figma Slides has me excited: - I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It's particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google's are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.…
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Why does it matter? How does designers using a tool affect anybody? Are you familiar with Figma? It's ubiquitous and awesome. And, as if developers use a non-plethora of non-esoteric, non-outdated tooling.
Lack of collaboration with folks in other expertise areas who won't/can't use that tool.
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All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations. Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote's ability to do things like introspect into postscript/vector objects and align on lines within the object is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work. I…
In my experience of many years, not only is Keynote fantastic, but Pages is better than Word and Numbers is better than Excel (though not the extensive Excel ecosystem).
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As an engineer for well over a decade, I've never once touched PowerPoint or any Microsoft productivity suite, so I don't think it's as black and white as you say. Google slides have been the bread and butter of all the engineering presentations I've seen and been a part of. And that's too many to even try to count. I think this depends on what the C-suite was sold more than anything. I've never worked in a "Microsof…
Interesting. I don't know a single person that uses google slides in a professional context. It's ppt files or even just pdfs. Designers will whip something up in InDesign or Illustrator if they want total control in rare instances, though.