Office 365 or Apple's solutions and iCloud?

[AHJ87]

I have just purchased the new MacBook Pro with touch bar and wondered whether I should purchase a subscription to Office 365 (I am a law student). I am yet to put my trust in Apple's version of the productivity applications which run on all my Apple devices.

Please let me know your thoughts, I think I know what the answer is going to be but I just wondered how powerful pages, numbers and keynote actually is. Collaboration features, cloud storage. etc?

Thanks for your time.

 

[Just_Me_D]

I've used them all at some point over the years, and I've concluded that word processors, worksheets, presentation, etc., pretty much work in the same manner. I use both Microsoft and Apple services and you should consider doing the same, in my opinion. Take advantage of both.

 

[Ecm]

There are pros and cons to each. The Apple applications integrate fully and completely with all your Apple devices -- systems and hardware, of course.

O365 doesn't (yet) take advantage of cool touchbar integrations. But, if you're collaborating with others, you may find that the O365 will require less effort ( re file types) to share with others. The 1TB Onedrive storage is great. Also, as O365 can be had on a monthly subscription, you can try it out to see how it works for you.

 

[AHJ87]

Thanks for your replies. I just wondered whether there were any complete no-no's on a particular service.