Apple to take iWork '09 online?

Nothing against it, but I can't use it. I am either at home or work, where that kind of thing is blocked, (stupid govt). At home I have iWork installed. If I had a laptiop I would have it installed there, too, so no need for 'net enabled iWork apps.

I think Gazoobee has it nailed.

Do that and create Iphone versions of the iwork suite I'd actually sign up for MoMe.

Of course, Pages without cut and paste.....

Jon

I'm conflicted about this, but it has potential.

I really like applications as a desktop thing...cloud computing is nice, but if there's no internet, you're royally screwed. That being said, it would be nice to go online on a PC, fire up Keynote online, and have all the fantastic animations and everything.

that would be amazing. i would like to see that. i'm a huge fan of iwork.

If Apple wants to add MobileMe functionality to iWork, then I at least hope they do it in a way that (a) works, and (b) doesn't force users to have or use MobileMe. I am a conscientious objector to cloud computing and I don't want Apple to force me to be online, at all (much less using MobileMe), to use their otherwise great iWork suite.

And of all the things that need attention in iWork, making it MobileMe compatible is NOT one of them. How about instead getting Numbers up to speed so that technical people like myself can use it to do technical stuff? (Seriously, if you can't do regression analysis or trendline-plotting with it, it's not really a spreadsheet.)

I'd rather them adopt some sort of standard file extension. (Or Google accept .pages). I'd rather just dump my documents into the cloud after making them on the desktop.

So, yeah, I don't know. Like someone said above, I'm hoping '09 adds some features and touches up some UI things that will help it catch Office. Numbers is especially needing.

It sounds interesting, but not if I have to pay for MobileMe on top of paying for iWork.

I will only upgrade to iWorks 09 if the "Cloud" features are optional. I prefer my applications to be Desktop.

I've used iWork '08 to create training materials for work, since my work PC sucks so badly. I'd love to be able to update those documents without having to bring them home to do it.

Apple cannot even get a webmail client working right, I have zero faith in any more complicated browser apps from them at this point. And I agree with the first poster; when you start using the web version of MobileMe mail, you realize how crappy it really is.

If it's a suite of online apps only that are geared for the iPhone and other Touch devices, I'm all for that. Throw it in with my existing MobileMe account and I'd hardly complain (unless it's as bad as the webmail).