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by ExBritNStuff 2401 days ago
I'm nice and deep in the Apple world (iPhone, iPad, Macbook) and I generally am very pro-Apple. However, I can whole heartedly say for anyone with an even semi-complex use case, Numbers is completely unsuitable and will actually drive you insane. Just Google "apple numbers pivot table" for an example.
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+1 on this. Keynote is very good, but Numbers gets functionally useless very quickly, and Pages is.... rough for anything that isn't "school essay". So fidgety!

Turns out word processing is hard.

I ended up buying my own Office subscription when I was working at a startup as Numbers was so hell inducing (and CEO refused to buy any equipment to help with the work...).

Keynote is interesting and I've seen some consultants use it for sprint planning really effectively, but Numbers is an utter clusterf*ck.

Looks like some people put up with it :P - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JN4RI7nkes
As a windows user moving towards Apple, it astounds me how immature numbers is. Keynote is okay, unless you want to export to any other format.