Apple wwdc 2009 keynote address11/29/2023 Keynote fell way short of Powerpoint’s feature set at the time, yet those of us who persisted with it knowing it possessed special qualities, found ways to work around its shortcomings. In many ways, these students resemble those of us who began with Keynote 1.0 in 2003, when Powerpoint 97 or 2000 was the only show in town. ![]() They don’t see weaknesses as we old hands at Keynote do, only possibilities. Last week, I witnessed students at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School using Keynote on the iPad for their projects having not touched the desktop version at all. I think Keynote for iPad will develop along its own course, taking advantage of the iPad’s special and unique capabilities. Apple does not have unlimited resources to throw at Keynote, and what they have seems to have been mustered to make sure Keynote on the iPad is the real tool it’s turning out to be, collecting features and capabilities aiming for, but not yet achieving parity with Keynote on the desktop.įrankly, I don’t think Apple’s in any great hurry to do this, despite Keynote’s afficionados hoping for it. More a playtoy than a real presentation tool when first released, it’s clear the iWork team has been busy bringing Keynote up to speed such that it can stand alone as a presentation creation tool as well as the presenter app itself.Ĭontrary to what many think, Apple’s iWork team is quite small in number, dispersed around the US mainland rather than based entirely out of Cupertino. In the meantime, Keynote on the iPad is now at 1.4, meaning there have been five versions since its release in April, 2010 when the iPad 1 came to market. Or at least no new effects or features have been sighted. iPad 1 and 2, WWDC ’10 and ’11, and special Back to the Mac events) we’ve seen the same Keynote on display. In the half dozen or so Apple keynotes since January 2009 (e.g. I don’t mean toast, but cooked in the sense that it no longer needs baking in the oven to convert its essential ingredients into a tasty whole. In my mind, Keynote 11 (or KN6 if you prefer) is pretty well cooked. Apple VP iOS, Scott Forstall demoes drop and dust build-in
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