Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be ...

Numbers makes illustrating data easy, but Sheets offers advanced formulas and add-ons. Google Sheets is ideal for cross-platform collaboration, while Numbers is best for Apple and iCloud users.

Numbers also has an online version you can access using a browser on just about any platform at iCloud.com. So, an all-score draw, but Excel probably grabs the advantage, here.

With the introduction of Private Cloud Compute (PCC), Apple just did cloud services right — and put a real competitive moat in place.

A court filing states that a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and ‘metadata’ of customers using Apple’s iCloud service anywhere in the world.