{"id":8624,"date":"2010-05-14T09:03:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T09:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/apple_pages_for_ipad_gets_update.html"},"modified":"2010-05-14T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T09:03:11","slug":"apple-pages-for-ipad-gets-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/apple-pages-for-ipad-gets-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pages for iPad Gets Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent yesterday morning in New York talking with Ooma<\/a> and I decided to take only my iPad to the meeting. Normally you know me as the buy who lugs a bag full of gadgets, chargers and batteries everywhere I go. My Dell laptop has that extra battery attached to the bottom and if I had to I could get nine hours of life out of it. Moreover I have probably logged as many miles on the wheels of my laptop case as I have on American Airlines. But don’t feel too sorry for me as I keep most of my trips to the US and Canada – I feel sympathy for the people who have to fly regularly from New York to Asia. But getting back to the iPad – it was quite liberating to get to a meeting and not have to worry about a case – or have to wheel it through rain, mud, snow, etc.<\/p>\n

The best software for note taking on the iPad is the Apple Pages software and for $9.99 it is obviously priced attractively. Interestingly when the meeting started I opened up the word processor and found that there was no menu which I could use to open a new document. After a while I gave up and decided to use the document I was in – I could always cut and paste later.<\/p>\n

I spent more time on the train back trying to figure out what I did wrong. I was gesturing like a lunatic… A swipe here, there and everywhere. I even resorted to drawing large letters on the screen like “E” for edit and “M” for menu. I was pretty annoyed but since I have started using Apple devices I have gotten used to the fact that Apple knows what is best for me and I try not to think too much about a better way to do things. This explains why eventually I gave up and decided I was going to let MIS handle it and get back to me.<\/p>\n

TMC partner Thomas Howe – the legend f voice mashups and cloud communications was at TMC HQ yesterday and when I got back to the office and came out of the elevator I ran into him. I was showing him the problem I was having and at some point I went to the App Store and saw that Pages had been updated. One of the improvements in fact was support for menus in landscape mode. Duh! All I had to do is turn this thing to get it to work right!<\/p>\n

Other improvements include better exporting to Microsoft Word and improved dealing with text wrapping and scrolling after a movie insertion.<\/p>\n

So what I thought was going to be an entry focusing on how difficult Pages was to use turned into a thank you to Apple for reminding me that no matter what problems we have in life, sometimes the simplest way to solve them is by looking at a challenge with fresh perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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