Pierre Igot, who runs the respected Betalogue blog and penned a much-shared series of articles on the changes to Pages, tells The Verge the latest version is 'severely crippled.' A large source of complaints is a refreshed, 'simplified' aesthetic, which leaves users with just a few options in the app's toolbar and removes the customization features that were previously present.

Much of the vitriol is aimed at the new Pages for OS X, Apple's word processor, which lost many features that 'power users' were accustomed to. However, a number of Apple watchers and users are complaining that the reworked apps aren’t as feature-rich as their predecessors.ĭetractors says the new Pages is 'severely crippled' The new apps feature a fresh layout, iCloud syncing, collaborative editing, and many more oft-requested features. Last week the company made Pages, Keynote, and Numbers free for all existing users, as well as for all new owners of Mac and iOS devices, in a move that was seen by many as an attack on established industry leaders. Pitted against the near-omnipresent Microsoft Office and Google’s free web-based solutions and only available on Apple products, iWork's market share pales in comparison to its competitors’. Apple's iWork productivity suite has never been a world beater.