PowerPoint for iPad Review

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What's missing in PowerPoint for iPad

Free Users Can Only View

The Office business model is freemium and subscription, but locks out users to do any kind of creation or editing. This is not a true freemium model.

No Video Support

PowerPoint lacks support for embedding videos or linking to YouTube videos, not able to play videos either.

No Links or Interactivity

There is no way to set a link, and therefore, no real interactivity.

No Image Editing/Cropping/Zooming

After you place an image on a slide, you can’t do much with it. You will have to have perfectly sized images saved to your iPad to use in your slides.

Can’t Import from the Cloud

This is actuallly pretty crazy and very shortsighted. You cannot import images from even OneBox (SkyBox) or Bing, not to mention the other popular cloud services where people keep content.

PowerPoint for iPad is clearly a port and not built from the ground up as a touch and cloud application.