Apple announces new version of iWork apps for iPad

iWork wasn't the first thing that came to mind when thinking of the new features the iPad would have, but Steve Jobs thought of it and told Apple's design team to create a version specifically tailored to the iPad's strengths. A new version of iWorks now exists for the iPad, and it includes the same three apps that come with the full, Mac version of iWorks: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.

The interface is engineered directly to the iPad's multitouch screen. Rather than floating palettes, the palettes on the iPad appear to be more of an "on-demand" feature. There's also a specific data-entry keyboard for Numbers, which shows off the flexibility of the multitouch interface.

According to reports so far, it looks much more powerful than a typical iPhone app.

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote cost $9.99 each.

So far there's no information on whether this will be ported to the iPhone/iPod touch.

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Gearoidmuar

I'm a Mac and PC man and I also use a Sony Reader. This gadget has a huge weakness. 12 hours of battery life is dreadful compared to a Sony Reader. You can take the Sony Reader on holidays for 2 weeks without a charger.

January 28 2010 at 4:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jdsaero

So does this mean we actually might be able to store documents on the device? Or are we to continue to pay to be held hostage again?

January 28 2010 at 2:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cydeweyz

No displayport? Is that a good or bad thing

January 28 2010 at 1:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gregpins

Amazing device. I will get one. Agree about the front facing camera. As for iWork, unless and until is transparently compatible with Office, meaning no need to import and export, it just isn't useful to me either on the iPad or on my Mac. Too much hassle.

January 27 2010 at 4:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Phaedrus

can it print?

January 27 2010 at 3:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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GFLA

Print? Whats that?

January 27 2010 at 4:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mr Lizard

Would it have killed them to put a camera on it! Such a wasted opportunity...

January 27 2010 at 3:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Martin

Didn't want iWork on the Mac, certainly don't on this thing.

And just how do you think they're going to port it to the iPhone? They're not.

January 27 2010 at 2:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dan Woods

What would you prefer? MS Office? OpenOffice? LaTeX?

iWork is the most user-accessable Office Suite on the market. There are things you can't do with it, but a copy of Omni Outliner and OmniGraffle fill those holes.

It's also the few office suites exclusively written in ObjectiveC and Cocoa. Therefore it's only one of a handful of suites which can be ported to iPhone OS and can run on embedded hardware.

January 27 2010 at 7:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

BrianGreenberg

iPad is an old product name from Widgetaria:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/ipad.html

January 27 2010 at 2:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

James

make up your mind, its either iWork or iWorks, not both, and officially its iWork.

or, what annerbananer said.

January 27 2010 at 2:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David

Um, isn't it called iWork, like on the box?

January 27 2010 at 2:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply