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

[glawi Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:43PM]

If you want to watch video, but not the image of iPad a live broadcast, follow this: http://bit.ly/apple-announcement-live

[RikF Posted Jan 27th 2010 2:56PM]

So Keynote with no video out? Surely they've missed something there.

[kyamon Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:04PM]

@RikF
Isn't it weird... I was wondering the same.
The entire thing does not make sense - no video out, no stylus (handwriting recognition will certainly be an early app for this thing - if it passes apples review process...), no GPS, no telephone, no multitasking. The way it is now, it really only is a hybrid between eBook, netbook (oh no!) and iPhone. Nothing new, and some of the essentials of each of these types stripped. It is like a Prius with the engine of a Hummer and the motor of a blender. And one wheel missing.
And it would mean that one has to carry around an extra device (in addition to the iPhone and the MBA ;) ), even though this should be the one device that does it all.

It is obvious that iPad 2 (2011) will include at least some of these features, and Apple will sell the stylus as a revolutionary invention. But why does version 1 have to be so useless??

[brightfield Posted Jan 27th 2010 5:48PM]

@kyamon

There's a dock-to-VGA adapter.

[Ethan Posted Jan 27th 2010 3:17PM]

So I have to buy this twice?

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

Can someone please tell apple that dull swiss army knives are not cool?
I would much rather functionality than all of the cool flashy stuff that doesn't do much. Granted, I know many new apps will come out for this, but that is not the point. I want an apple-made app that is not some rehash of a 1990 application wrapped in a new skin.

[Phaedrus0230 Posted Jan 27th 2010 4:08PM]

can it print?

[aquatiger Posted Jan 27th 2010 6:52PM]

I cant wait for the 13 inch iPad to come out. Bigger screen, more functions.

I call it MaxiPad

[Heliosphan Posted Jan 28th 2010 11:37AM]

Apple have missed a trick here BIG time!
If they had combined the three iWork apps into just one, then you could flip between, for example, two word processing documents, one spreadsheet, and two presentations, all very similarly to how you use multiple pages in iPhone Safari, except any page can be any one of the three suite apps.
Would make copying and pasting content between each one a lot easier whilst keeping all your various docs open. And all the miserable sods on these comments pages wouldn't be lambasting the lack of 'multitasking' all the time!

[Heliosphan Posted Jan 28th 2010 11:43AM]

@kyamon and co.
NO MORE STYLUSES! Don't you understand they're f**king stupid things! Are easily lost, are fiddly, go straight back to the ancient way of entering 'data' and is the slowest and most innacurate form of input anywhere.
Apple are perfectly correct in not designing in styluses in their products.

[Zhuzhu Posted Feb 19th 2010 2:10PM]

BOYCOTT!

I propose a boycott of the iPad until Apple allows Flash onto it and enables multitasking, which it seems to me are the most common & reasonable complaints that folks have been having about it. There lots of other changes that I'd like to see, but these could be done immediately and would sway me back to buying the machine.

Relevance: users of iWork Pages would surely want to be able to run the dictionary of their choice at the same time.

If you agree, please help spread the word.