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Originally Posted by OtinG
Books has always been an unwanted stepchild at Apple. Apple never seems to have given it much thought. I use it to view PDF files, mostly product manuals, but only bought one book for it way back many, many years ago. I much prefer the Amazon Kindle ecosystem and app. The same goes for Numbers and Pages, two more stepchildren. Compared to Excel and Word they are very lackluster and often difficult to use, especially on iOS and iPadOS.
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I definitely agree with the first part. The gave us agency pricing and moved on. Nowadays I just delete the app on my phone and use Kindle. If there was an eink reader from Apple, this isn’t have been different. But Books simply cannot compete with the versatility of Kindle.
As for Pages and Numbers. I think they are fine, but they have definitely never evolved into really mature office products.