IWork

Article summary

iWork is an office suite of applications created by Apple for its macOS, iPadOS, and iOS operating systems, and also available cross-platform through the iCloud website. iWork includes the presentation application Keynote, the word-processing and desktop-publishing application Pages, and the spreadsheet application Numbers. Apple's design goals in creating iWork have been to allow Mac users to easily create attractive documents and spreadsheets, making use of macOS's extensive font library, integrated spelling checker, sophisticated graphics APIs and its AppleScript automation framework. The equivalent Microsoft Office applications to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, respectively. Although Microsoft Office applications cannot open iWork documents, iWork applications can open Office documents for editing, and export documents from iWork's native formats ( .pages , .numbers , .key ) to Microsoft Office formats ( .docx , .xlsx , .pptx , etc.) as well as to PDF files. The oldest application in iWork is Keynote, first released as a standalone application in 2003 for use by Steve Jobs in his presentations. Steve Jobs announced Keynote saying "It's for when your presentation really matters". Pages was released with the first iWork bundle in 2004; Numbers was added in 2007 with the release of iWork '08.…

Key claims

1. release date: 2003 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 2004 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 2010 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. release date: 2017 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. release date: 2006-01-10 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. release date: 2007-08-07 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
7. release date: 2011-01-06 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
8. release date: 2010-08-26 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
9. release date: 2009-01-06 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the release date is "2003". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the release date is "2004". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the release date is "2010". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the release date is "2017". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. The record states that the release date is "2006-01-10". What evidence would count against this claim?
7. The record states that the release date is "2007-08-07". What evidence would count against this claim?
8. The record states that the release date is "2011-01-06". What evidence would count against this claim?
9. The record states that the release date is "2010-08-26". What evidence would count against this claim?
10. The record states that the release date is "2009-01-06". What evidence would count against this claim?
11. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
12. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376128263