{"id":31721,"date":"2021-02-23T16:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31721"},"modified":"2021-02-23T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:53:47","slug":"unified-office-app-for-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/23\/unified-office-app-for-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified Office App for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/unified-office-app-ipad\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/unified-office-app-ipad\/\">\n<p>I am finding it difficult to adapt to increasingly unified applications on my Mac and iPad. I am not sure if this is an age and experience thing &mdash; I am used to switching between apps with multiple documents or windows open. Aside from web browsers and development environments, I use tabs infrequently within any apps because I am often juggling between many files. The advantages of thinking in an application-based model are outweighed, for me, by a document-based model.<\/p>\n<p>This unified Office app has many of the same problems as, for example, Electron apps and web apps generally. Each document consumes the entire app. You can use the app in split screen, as Apple now requires, but it does not fully support multitasking within the app. So it is not possible to, for example, build a PowerPoint presentation based on a Word document outline, or reference one Excel spreadsheet while working in another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer: I am finding it difficult to adapt to increasingly unified applications on my Mac and iPad. I am not sure if this is an age and experience thing &mdash; I am used to switching between apps with multiple documents or windows open. Aside from web browsers and development environments, I use tabs infrequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-02-23T21:52:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"0acb02e1-277c-4fb6-a478-98c72a24b602","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-02-23T21:53:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACssC4Sd8T7akeJjHKiS2Ag","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,31,26,1814,1956,577],"class_list":["post-31721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-14","tag-microsoft-office"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31722,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31721\/revisions\/31722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}