Sidekick

Sidekick has been around for years, well before Apple unofficially discontinued AppleWorks last month. However many people still use AppleWorks. To not provide a simple update now would be very small minded.

Hi Ian... Sorry about this problem. I'd appreciate it if you would visit my Feedback page to send me more details about this problem. This is the expected behaviour if Sidekick can't locate AppleWorks. I also use the International English edition of AppleWorks there's something else happening. Many thanks.

AppleWorks is not dead. It is still in fact being sold by Apple, and is being bundled with the new Mac minis. Many people are doing productive things with it, that they can't do with a word processor and presentation package (ie iWork), or as easily with the incomplete versions of the OpenOffice/NeoOfficeJ available on the Mac platform. I seriously doubt Apple will upgrade iWork to match AppleWorks by June this year (ie when Tiger's due). Simply because there's some nice technology like CoreData and CoreImage coming in Tiger doesn't mean Apple have developed complete apps with them and are ready to release them. I'd look for iWork '06 late next year to see anything like that coming from Apple. Sidekick won't be released as freeware or refunds given. This would suggest that AppleWorks is unusable or that my effort in making Sidekick is meaningless. Obviously I don't agree with that. Nor I imagine would many people who are AppleWorks User Group members, or those who participate in the AppleWorks Discussion on Apple's Support web site.