![]() ![]() That meant I would not have a reliable connection to Office 365 or OneDrive. The hotel's conference Wi-Fi also was up and down. My particular carrier has poor coverage in the Southern California, due to long-standing sandbagging by the region's dominant carrier, and the conference hotel's physical design essentially blocked the area's weak signals from getting inside. When I arrived at the conference facility, I realized that the cellular connection was nonexistent in the meeting rooms. The PowerPoint applet for Apple Watch can control only a presentation on an iPhone's PowerPoint app, not other devices. Even if I had my MacBook Pro, I would have had nearly all the same issues with PowerPoint. My iPad is easier to carry, the battery lasts all day, and all my everyday apps are available for it. When I travel, I almost never bring my laptop with me. Last week, when I was giving a presentation on digital transformation at the SoTech 2016 conference, I was reminded just how much I still needed Keynote. If your device doesn't have an internet connection and you haven't stored an Office 365 file beforehand, you can't access your files in apps like PowerPoint. ![]() That's because Microsoft still doesn't understand how to think about mobile users as well as Apple understands them. I could now use the standard Microsoft apps on any device and work easily with the rest of my organization, across all the devices it supports.ĭespite that remarkable progress in Office, I still have to use Keynote when I'm making a presentation, even if the slideshow was created in PowerPoint. Then Microsoft released revised Office apps for iOS that matched iWorks' capabilities, with the advantage of integrating nicely into Office 365 and OneDrive. Until last year, Apple's iWork suite was my go-to productivity tool on the iPad and iPhone. ![]()
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