Apple announces iWork for iPad

Well, it looks like it's not all just fun and games for Apple's new iPad -- the company has also just announced an edition of its iWork software suite for the device. That, of course, includes versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote that have been "completely reimagined for iPad," which will be available individually for $9.99 apiece, and are each basically what you'd expect from iPad versions of the desktop applications. It's iWork you can touch, if you will.

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Apple announces iWork for iPad

[bigmattown Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:01PM]

ppplease spell check.

[Evan Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:11PM]

@bigmattown

Most people don't even use iWorks on their Mac anyways. Office has you cornered here guys.

[Acey Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:11PM]

@bigmattown

probably typing from the ipad, the letter P was probably too close to the edge

[bigmattown Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:24PM]

@Acey

I loled

[OrsonX Posted Jan 27th 2010 4:39PM]

@Evan

yes, true at the moment, but when the PC Office 2007 Ribbon lands then I'll be kissing it goodbye... so far MacOffice 2008 is immune from this bollox thing....

[Jordan Posted Jan 27th 2010 6:16PM]

@OrsonX: Except Mac office 08 runs like a Mac does..bunch of open Windows floating all over the place, getting hidden behind other windows and programs, and crap like that. I'll take ribbon any day, besides, once you learn the ribbon - it makes sense.

[Steve Jobs Clone Posted Mar 27th 2010 7:51PM]

@Evan
It's $30 dollars for iWork on the iPad.

How do you even type on it anyway? On the iPhone, I use my two thumbs of cause. On the iPad, I have to use my hands. How am I suppose to hold it when typing?

[noodles2k Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:01PM]

mmmmmm.... "Appple" pie

[Karate Tortoise Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:01PM]

kthxbye

[noodles2k Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:02PM]

more like iFail.

[Jakob Posted Jan 27th 2010 3:40PM]

@noodles2k Omg that's new! The prefix, the word, just about everything is new.

[Tweak589 Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:03PM]

iPaid

[killplay Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:03PM]

A legit office sweet? About time

[IBneel Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:04PM]

@killplay thats what she said

[skyblaze Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:04PM]

i wouldnt work for an ipad.....

[Rem DX Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:04PM]

Engadget, are you gonna keep flooding the blog with iPad related news to overcome your shock at how crappy it is?
You do realize that no one is going to be buying any of this stuff don't you?

The Iphone 3Gs was one thing but this...aye caramba!

[Rem DX Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:13PM]

@cherryboom
But what is there to copy...?

[Sansagara Posted Jan 27th 2010 3:30PM]

@Rem DX LOL

[Seth The Gr8 Posted Jan 29th 2010 5:52PM]

@cherryboom Sorry, I can't read that without reading it in the voice of the Hulk. THEIR STOCK HOLDER DEMAND IT.

[willowtwf Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:04PM]

i know endgadget makes money based off of page views. so i understand the desire to get us all to click through multiple pages of comments.

but can you PLEASE put it back to 20-30 comments per page?

[hariss Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:04PM]

ipad can handle iworks but it cant handle flash?

wtf.

[killplay Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:05PM]

If it were 5 or 6 inches, i'd think about it. But I could get a laptop more than twice as fast for under $500. A glorified eReader? why...

[Anatidae Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:05PM]

I like how the live feed has his team saying that iWorks takes some horsepower.

Seriously? Come on. I have been using Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and all sorts of craptastic/bloated business software for the last 18 years. It ran on computers back then with far, far, far, far (yes another), far less horsepower than the iPad has.

How much horsepower does a word processor need? A spreadsheet? Even graphs. Oh my, watch out for that pie chart that takes four days to render!

[Jordan Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:05PM]

In the liveblog, Engadget said:

"This is nice... but it's iWork."

Exactly. Who cares about iWork? Specifically when it looks this dumbed down.

[killplay Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:06PM]

It can handle flash. But if the iPortables had free flash, who would buy games and such from the app store? Thats why no flash

[whiskers Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:07PM]

How much?

[shockr Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:07PM]

Last I checked, it was spelt "Apple".

[shockr Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:08PM]

@shockr Yeah, URL and page title still read "appple"

[TikiTeko Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:07PM]

With my iPad I can iWork in total comfort. In your face mother nature.

iPad: The Freedom of Being a Woman.

[genaio Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:07PM]

I lost what little respect I had for Apple with the line "With iWork Spreadsheets are cool and fun to use." Really? Are they really "cool"?

[postmasterSteve Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:08PM]

Appple annnounces new features on MacBoooks: spelll check!!
Awesome.

[geekthree Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:09PM]

Engadget please add the option for correct-order live blogging to the app, seriously have you tried to read one of your liveblog on the iPhone app? Takes a full few minutes to get o the bottom of the freeking page.

[Ed T Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:10PM]

No homage to W7 or M$ -- oh the tragedy!

Get over it fools, like the floppy and Dell, Windows is dead.

[JamesR Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:14PM]

@Ed T

Windows7 alone has already topped OS X's 5% total market share.

[Firehazel Posted Jan 31st 2010 5:26PM]

@Ed T
Both Apple and Microsoft are alive and kicking. What are you, a Linux fan?

[atomandroid Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:11PM]

This is exactly the software I wanted on my iPad! Oh wait, I thought spreadsheets, etc. were only for loser businessmen who use PCs?

[atomandroid Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:15PM]

@atomandroid

Wait, and these aren't free!?!?!? This is crapware that I'd have paid NOT to have on the iPad. Who's actually going to pay to use this stuff on a screen without a hardware keyboard (or second multitouch screen dedicated to input - like that MSI dualscreen netbook)?

[Ed T Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:21PM]

@atomandroid

Don't be a tool, ever heard of Bluetooth? This is Apple's wood stake in the heart of Windows. The zombie starts to lose mindshare today. In five years people will talk about Windows like they talk about COBOL today.

[Luxury Guy Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:35PM]

@Ed T Haha have you ever tried to connect any periphereals via Bluetooth to an iPhone? If this is using the same stack/drivers, don't get your hopes up. That's a department where every WM smartphone excells, full support for BT periphereals, wtih keyboard support stock, and the driver for BT mosue support being only a download away.

[atomandroid Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:58PM]

@Ed T @Luxury Guy

Well I see it has a keyboard/dock, too.

But honestly - who wants to carry around a dock and keyboard or bluetooth keyboard (idk - either one or two extra pieces of hardware) to get the full iPad experience? Especially when you can buy a netbook for less $ that is more powerful and more functional - and only have to carry around one piece of hardware?

And as Luxury Guy said - the iPhone's bluetooth support sucks and using a bluetoth keyboard with the iPhone is a pain. WinMo, which Apple fanboys put down as the most out of date, decrepit smartphone OS ever, has been able to do this forever.

[Luxury Guy Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:12PM]

ITS NOT ONENOTE
And if its not MS OneNote, then its just not good enough.

[atomandroid Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:22PM]

@Luxury Guy

I love OneNote! A OneNote clone would have been an obvious choice for an well-thought-out Apple tablet. They say they have been working on tablet ideas for decades??? Oh well.

[atomandroid Posted Jan 27th 2010 3:01PM]

@Luxury Guy

OK, I know this is sad, but: http://onenotemike.members.winisp.net/My%20One%20and%20Only%20OneNote.htm

[keplenk Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:14PM]

Good luck on "touch typing" numbers in this "iPad" of yours.

Let's just wait until Apple Fanbois defend their new toy.

[Silic0nJ3sus Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:15PM]

That's right Apple. Keep beating around the bush and delay as long as possible. We know that there's an over-sized price tag to go with your over-size iPod Touch.

I'm thinking around $900.

[TheArcane Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:16PM]

Umm... Actually working on this thing looks awful. How is one supposed to type on it? It's too big for holding it in two hands and typing with the thumbs. Holding it in one hand and typing with the other is slow and probably tiring. Putting it on the table or on the lap to type with both hands is torture to your neck and back. It screams for a better input method. Capacitive stylus + handwriting recognition?

[atomandroid Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:17PM]

I love OneNote! A OneNote clone would have been an obvious choice for an well-thought-out Apple tablet. They say they have been working on tablet ideas for decades??? Oh well.

[Wwhat Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:25PM]

What I like about the ipad is that you don't feel bad about not getting it, no small feeling in the back of your mind you are left out of something.

[FlyersPh9 Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:32PM]

Does anyone know if this affects the iWork for Macs? I just reformatted my MacBook Pro and need to reinstall iLife and iWork, but I am wondering if there will be an iLife/iWork '10 for Mac...

[Ameen Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:36PM]

iDont Work ! :P