http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/ Engadget Comments for Apple announces iWork.com beta http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
The ability to collaborate as long as everyone is running OS X is well worth paying the $79, as opposed to the free and flexible solutions out there now that force me to have the ability to work with people running Windows and Ubuntu.]]>Jan 6th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
Or I can get this for free at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/office_live (integrated with MS Office) or http://apps.google.com for purely online stuff.]]>Jan 6th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
iWork.com beta? Ooh, wow. How exciting.]]>Jan 6th 2009 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
If not, that's not even remotely close to competing with Google Docs.]]>Jan 6th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
I don't know, Google seems way ahead of whatever it is Apple could come up with AND it is free to those that can ignore the ads (or $50 a month for those willing to pay for the ads to be removed). That being said, I haven't seen significant updates to Google's offerings since their launch... and Google seems content rolling out very minor updates.

I guess I'll play the waiting game and keep my money in my pocket.]]>Jan 6th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/).]]>Jan 6th 2009 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
Personally I would rather pay cash instead, privacy and no advertising FTW!]]>Jan 6th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
So we know where Google are, and now what Apple have planned, what is Steve Ballmer going to announce that Microsoft are doing in this space? (Will he do so at CES tomorrow?)]]>Jan 6th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
http://workspace.officelive.com]]>Jan 6th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
Most boring preeentation in a while, there's a reason why Apple's leaving the Macworld behind them. And btw: is Apple becoming greedy as hell? 2800 for a 17" model? And 99 f***king cent for the remote App? Are u kidding?]]>Jan 6th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
If I need to share a document, I'll just email it.]]>Jan 6th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
And pray tell, how many businesses actually run Macintoshes anyway? Yeah, I like the idea of iWork for small businesses and students, but how many businesses do you know of which run Macs to take advantage of this ridiculously expensive sharing tool?]]>Jan 6th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=94]]>Jan 6th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/Jan 6th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
No wonder Steve stayed home. What a boring, disappointing keynote. ]]>Jan 6th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
Final Note: I probably would have jumped on a $699 netbook that was basically a Apple themed $499 MSI Wind... ]]>Jan 6th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
I would rather prefer free Google Docs than a $79 apple product.... or Microsoft Office Live which is also free and very nicely integrated in Office.

To be very honest. I am very disappointed with the phil's keynote and Apple doesnt even believe in a nice good-bye kiss...... i was expecting something really revolutionary, something like iPhone Nano or Mac Media server and not Guitar lessons in iLife.]]>Jan 6th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/View document online.
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Download a copy.

I do not see the EDIT part.
I signed in for the beta..
You must have iWork just to upload to a server so someone can just take a look at it, and comment. But he wants to edit, he needs to download and open it with his own copy of iWork.

Either I am missing something, either this service sucks. A lot.]]>Jan 6th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/
I've just tried it out with a few documents (the service is online). It's not that exciting, really.]]>Jan 6th 2009 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/apple-announces-iwork-com-beta/http://a.nnotate.com - upload a PDF / word doc to a web page, and get review feedback from several people by letting them attach comments / replies. It looks like they render fonts/layout properly in the browser too (unlike google docs which does a lossy conversion to html).

Apple's iwork.com flash demo is worth a look -

http://www.apple.com/iwork/iwork-dot-com/

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