I think you misunderstand the point of most of those comments. Numbers and Google Sheets for iPad have been available for months, so Microsoft's offering has to demonstrate value above and beyond those. Unfortunately, the 2014 offering doesn't really do that.
Having encountered an issue before (The workbook you are trying to open is an ISO Strict file), it's not clear if Microsoft actually leveraged the existing Office code in the mobile versions: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2960660
months? Don't you mean years? At least Numbers has been available since the very first iPad AFAIK - one of the things that Apple clearly did better with their iPad introduction compared to MS's Surface introduction with no touch optimized Office.
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I think you misunderstand the point of most of those comments. Numbers and Google Sheets for iPad have been available for months, so Microsoft's offering has to demonstrate value above and beyond those. Unfortunately, the 2014 offering doesn't really do that.
Having encountered an issue before (The workbook you are trying to open is an ISO Strict file), it's not clear if Microsoft actually leveraged the existing Office code in the mobile versions: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2960660
months? Don't you mean years? At least Numbers has been available since the very first iPad AFAIK - one of the things that Apple clearly did better with their iPad introduction compared to MS's Surface introduction with no touch optimized Office.