Apple's iWork Goes (Partly) Online
Apple today announced an online component to its iWork productivity suite. This, however, is not the rumored online version of iWork we were hoping for, as it only allows you to share documents online through iWork.com. After you share a document through the newly released iWork '08 desktop software, your friends and co-workers can comment and leave notes on your Keynote, Pages, or Numbers documents, though the documents themselves can't be edited online.
Apple is releasing this as a free beta today, and Phil Schiller announced this as "the beginning of a great new service," which leads us to believe that Apple is indeed working on a more advanced online version of iWork.
According to Schiller, iWork.com will work on all the major browsers, including Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Documents are not only viewable online, but can also be downloaded.
Apple also announced a Keynote Remote iPhone app, that will be available in the App Store for $0.99, as well as major updates to its iWork and iLife suites.
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This is a long way from the kind of collaborative online cloud app that lots of us were hoping for. As usual from Apple, it looks great, but isn't nearly as useful as, say Google Docs or Zoho.
I struggle to believe that, considering you need to buy iWork 09 to share documents on iWork.com, that Apple will successfully charge for the iwork.com bit.
Posted by: Kenny | January 7, 2009 1:42 AM