Keynote vs. Powerpoint

[karavite]

Unlike a lot of you young whipper snappers, I remember the day when many many compaines produced presentation software that was more "multimedia" and related to Director than what we have today in PowerPoint. Despite processors and OSs that would be a joke today, it was a really cool time - lots of innovation (remember"innovation" - that thing Microsoft tried to kill along with our IT economy?). Of course all this innovation was ruined as Microsoft took over the world (unfairyl and without innovation) and almost every corporate or education presentation was reduced to a few ugly PPT themes. Suddenly, any subject in the world could be condensed to a set of bullet points.

Perhaps this has all changed? Keynote looks really nice - far more elegant to do the same kind of presentations PowerPoint still bumbles through (aligning objects and pitiful "seamless" intergration with charts and tables from excel for example) and it looks like Apple took some technology from Final Cut Pro in all those neat new video transitions. Still, what about making interactive presentations and making them easier to do? Believe it or not, you can do some things like this with PowerPoint, but it is far from elegant or powerful. This is something Apple could do so much better and I can't wait to see what Keynote can do in this respect and/or what Apple will add to it in the future.

So, anyone with a powerbook or ibook - make your next presentation in Keynote (it really should be offered for free) and wake up all the PC drones just like in the old 1984 Apple commercial!

[karavite]

Oops, maybe this should be in Mac OS X System & Software

[chevy]

It's difficult to beat an old chimp !

[MacLuv]

This is the stupidest idea I've ever seen. I can see Apple' strategic plan on this one--go through the back door with presentation software--but it's not going to catch on. They've just been wasting time.

[wiz]

no guys there is no plan here, just a ware

[LordOphidian]

Like Jobs said, this was an App that was developed for him. They simply added some polish and released it.

It looks like a pretty awsome app, but the one down side I see is that if you want it to display with all those cool features, you will have to use it on a Mac. I'm pretty sure that the ppt format doesn't support dynamic 3d slide transitions, or alpha blending and things like that. The QT movie export could be cool, but wouldn't be user controlable (aside from hitting play/pause between slides i guess).

[MacLuv]

Originally posted by LordOphidian
Like Jobs said, this was an App that was developed for him. They simply added some polish and released it.

That, in itself, scares me.

[wiz]

its actually pretty easy to use and bundled with useful features