Hm, if you happen to be writing in (American) English, then Apple does indeed offer a few nice gimmicks. For writers of other languages there's no dictionary/thesaurus to cross-check with, no useable text-to-speech-function, etc.
And if you happen to live in a bilingual environment (as hundreds of million do all over the world) even the spell checker becomes largely useless.
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