What's happening with iWork.com?
Last January, Apple released iWork.com at Macworld Expo. For the unfamiliar, it's a collaborative site that allows a team to share and review any iWork document. I've used it with Keynote and found it quite handy. Invited participants can comment on a document, download it in multiple formats and upload revisions. There's even some integration with Google Docs. It was almost a year ago that Apple released the beta of iWork.com, and little has been mentioned since. It definitely needs work. It's slow with large documents which is a turn off for many users. Still, I think it has potential and hope it doesn't go the way of AppleWorks. Perhaps that new data center they're building in North Carolina (schedule to open sometime in 2010) will throw a little horsepower to this project.
Have you used iWork.com or is there another neglected Apple app that needs some attention? Sound off below.
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Last January, Apple released iWork.com at Macworld Expo. For the unfamiliar, it's a collaborative site that allows a team to share and...
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I have used iwork for 32 days and find that I prefer a simpler App.
How can i remove iwork from my computer?
They haven't updated ResEdit since the 3.0 beta!
September 24 2009 at 12:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIt is a convenient hook in the iWork apps for getting data onto MobileMe (and I know they call it iWork.com and it parks the docs in a different place), but seriously, that's about all it is. With it's very limited collaboration features, it simply doesn't do enough to justify or even use when it's just as easy to use other cloud based services that provide more capable and robust tools.
Also, how many corporations are behind firewalls that prevent access to cloud storage? I placed a document on iWork for someone to pick up/review and had to turn around and use their corporate web page to submit the document anyway because their corporate policies prevent them from accessing "public" storage. (I know there are methods and means to change policies, and even ways to circumvent, but I'm not putting this here for argument...)
Two big, fanning the crowd strikes...
I don't even remember them announcing this.
September 23 2009 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Keynote support in iWorks is pretty lame. Yes you can upload but you can't edit and you can't even run the presentation full screen. ie. present from the cloud.
They should create a Quicktime version of the presentation so that you could play on multiple devices and present from the cloud.
I use it for reviewing docs. I don't *want* clients editing the docs, just reviewing and commenting. For that focussed use, it's perfect.
September 23 2009 at 3:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI use iWork.com all the time for school purposes. I send out my latest essay to others taking the same class as I, so they can look it over and make notes. Even the ones that use PCs like it. However, I don't think there is a way of reimporting those notes back to Pages... does anyone know?
September 23 2009 at 2:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyKory,
If you download the document in Pages '09 format, your comments should be in the downloaded version.
Quote: "It was almost a year ago that Apple released the beta of iWork.com." Huh? Between January, 6th, and September, 23rd, are exactly 8 months and 17 days. This is almost a year? Would you say that 67 dollars are almost 100 dollars?
September 23 2009 at 2:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis is actually the first I can remember hearing of it, and I always watch the keynotes. I guess it's just that useful.
September 23 2009 at 2:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI've tried it, but without the ability to actually edit the documents online, it's rather useless. Google Docs is a much better product when it comes to collaboration (especially considering one can use their own domain with it).
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