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by taftster 280 days ago
> We do need for-profit alternatives to Word, and I’m working on one in legal.

Wow, big undertaking!

What we really need, though, is a for-profit alternative to Excel, that's not Google. I think Excel is more of the Killer App than Word has ever been.

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That's Apple Numbers.
... which comes tied to macOS and with it Apple hardware. Neither play well in a shop that uses x86 Windows-only software, and Apple's switch to ARM hasn't made that easier.
So? The person I was replying to didn't impose any conditions beyond it being not Google.
Adding Apple to implied conditions. :)