>Honestly, who needs buttons for bold and italic? Or left, center, and right justification?

Almost every layman user? - at least for the latter, as there are well known shortcuts for the former many know.

>An advantage of TextEdit that Allison points out and which I concede: TextEdit uses much less memory than Pages. I wish that weren’t the case, but I have a 48 GB MacBook Pro, so I can afford to be profligate with RAM.

You can't be profligate with the TextEdit vs Pages level RAM use on a fucking 48GB laptop? I can be way more profligate (sic) even on 16GB or 8GB laptops.

Oh, and his other issue is you can't hide TextEdit's menubar and it takes space from the document. That for one of the more streamlined, and to the point, menubars in the history of GUI software...

I'm all for a good app review or even a good app putdown, but these guy's pet peeves, which he blows up into major issues when he's picking one or the other app are really bizarre.

Yeah I generally like Dr. Drang’s writing but the formatting buttons seemed like a really odd complaint to me too.

It’s so useful to have ultra-common stuff right at hand. I use keyboard shortcuts for some but don’t know them for others. I agree it’s a godsend for inexperienced users.

One of my top complaints about the ribbon or the sidebar stuff in pages is how hard it is to find that stuff.

And sure MacWrite didn’t show it, but it was on a 512x342 pixel screen. Adding a toolbar would take away very very precious vertical space. We can afford it now, the trade-off is different.

The article is about his personal preference, so it may not fit him well. But as a general criticism it seems very odd.

The review can’t be that bad. I signed up for text edit and bought it.