Steve-mail says Keynote '11 to have AirPlay, Apple TV capabilities

I thought this function should have been out years ago. This would have been a killer app to get Apple TVs at a bunch more places as "kiosks". How many offices have HDTVs running PowerPoint? This is where Apple loses points because things are too locked down for anybody else to even add something like this. My wife wanted to use the Apple TV for the same thing, to display slides for the kid's home school work (from a mac none-the-less) and there are just zero good tools to do something so simple.

Now wait a minute ... when I read the email I didn't think of "presemtations built with the Keynote program."

The first thing I thought of was "keynote videos that announce new products" (as in The Steve up on stage saying 'one more thing')

I may be wrong about this .... but I know that with the current version of the Keynote program you can already export a presentation as Quicktime video. Therefore the question of "can Apple TV play a Keynote (program) presentation" would be a moot point.

Whereas, we know that iTunes can stream 'Movies' to an Apple TV, but can it stream Apple's latest WWDC Keynote Speech to an Apple TV?

I hope so, along with iWeb 11!

"As Jared pointed out, this could explain why iWork '11 was not included in the Back to the Mac presentation in October. "

I hardly think that is the reason that iWork is not announced in recent event. Apple has always spread its product announcement and release in numerous events throughout the year. Rather than putting all eggs in one basket, they put it in many baskets. Now you can treat the egg as product announcement and baskets. For example, the release of Macbook Air could have happened during the announcement of the new Mac this year but Apple thought that they can leave the best for "Back to the Mac" event since those new Mac (core i5 etc) and other news are sufficient for that event. In doing so, Apple tries to consistently generate excitement and interest for every of its events throughout the year. In market sense, Apple want to time its product release at the right time with a particular theme and carefully avoiding doing too much that saturate the market with "too many Apple products" at any one time.

* Steve reads email
* Steve has new idea for a magical feature
* Steve calls the iWork team to get his feature idea done by yesterday

Not to be a douche, but he didn't exactly say "Keynote '11 will have AirPlay, Apple TV capabilities", he said it's coming soon.

Don't read too much into an extremely generic reply.

I'm glad I picked up a new Apple TV. I think there are probably a lot of awesome new features coming down the pike.

Maybe he isn't registered for the developer program?

Steve's iPhone is only running 4.1 (8B117)?

Even if Keynote '11 can do this, it won't convince me to shell out for an Apple TV. (It's $99 in the US, but here in the UK, it's £99, which works out at about $160.)

Also, small thing; it's called "iWork" not "iWorks".