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Get a grip!
As for the whole pages vs word discussion...
I'm a mac fanatic and admire pages and its simplicity, it works how you think it would like the other Apple apps unlike word which puts all the complicated (and often uneeded) options in your face...
BUT Pages has a long way to go yet, its very much an Apple app, but it has its quirks and relies too much on the inspector.
It seems that all the complicated options Apple doesnt want to look at it just shoves lazily into the inspector with little refinement... like how do I change that *&^%^# margin?
It needs to better implement some of the more complicated features into its interface such as better margins and rulers, and the ability to change font without opening up another dialogue box.
Also ... hyphenation is always on by default! and I wish I could turn it off permanently... theres a lot Pages could learn from Word without going overboard (eg- I like Word's create a table system better where it lets you visually choose no of rows/columns as you create the table) .
Jobs wanted Apple to produce a significant OS upgrade, in-house, but Scully and a majority of the board feared that such an "insanely great" upgrade would disrupt their existing business model which wasn't working.
Jobs was stupidly canned from Apple and because of it the company suffered a brain drain to NeXT inc , innovation stumbled and Apple continued to lose market share. Eventually Apple had to pay 400 million dollars to purchase NeXTStep which became OS X and paved the way for Jobs to regain control of his company on his terms.
Apple lost several irreplacable years of innovation time and though nobody can quantify exactly how much was lost in the interim little if anything was gained from such a stupid move.