iWork.com, a domain that Apple has owned for a long time is set to go live this week with a public beta of the new iWork collaboration package. We went over this briefly before but need to clarify our previous statements a bit.
iWork.com will be a online site where you can share and view (but not yet edit) iWork documents online. Workgroups will be alowed to share documents, comment on documents and view them to a certain extent in the browser window. We haven't recieved clarification of how well this will work and how many capabilities this will have. Somewhere between reading a Pages document and viewing a full multimedia Keynote presentation we'd guess.
We expect it to go live tomorrow.
iWork.com Whois:
Domain Name: IWORK.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server: NSERVER.APPLE.COM
Name Server: NSERVER2.APPLE.COM
Name Server: NSERVER3.APPLE.COM
Name Server: NSERVER4.APPLE.COM
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 07-oct-2008
Creation Date: 22-aug-1995
Expiration Date: 21-aug-2010
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LAME
LAME
Finally, someone gets it
Finally, someone gets it right. iWork isn't going to move totally online a la MobileMe, but it will be like a document collaboration thing like Google Docs. The online service is just going to be an extension of the desktop applications which will be used for the main, intensive editing.
Though, iwork.com is not indicative of anything. Apple owns a lot of domains like that. They own iphone.com (which presently redirects to the iPhone page just like the iwork.com domain forwards to the iWork page), but it's not a web-based iPhone. These domains are just to make things simpler. The same with imac.com, airport.com, and ipod.com.
collaboration???
Honestly, that makes no sense to me. I work in a small all-Mac office and we use iWork. Sometimes we collaborate on files, but we have no need whatsoever for an iWork.com site to do so.
But even if there was some degree of need, how large of a target market is there of Mac-users who need to collaborate on a file?
This product cannot be as described; that would be useless.
http://docs.google.com Tell
http://docs.google.com
Tell those big bad boys that obviously have no clue what they're doing that they're wrong. This is the basis for everything. It may trouble you to know that the entire Mac world does not revolve around your little office. Corporations have national and international offices and they all need to be updated with the latest information. How would you suggest they do such a thing? On the phone? Is this the Middle Ages?
@Scott
Welcome to the world of Web 2.0
It makes sense to me. . A
It makes sense to me.
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A company might have that kind of stuff internal.
But as a studen it would be cool to do then in my study group.
Sure we have a system on campus, but that works like crap.
You need to log in, and do 5 clicks before you can see documents, and then you have to download them via the browser, and upload new files via the browser.
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If they make it more simple, and make it with versions of the dokument, then it would be really nice.
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As for companys, IF they make a nice easy interface of the system. It would be nice to make it point at the companys own server, and not the iwork's server then I can also see the use for that. (and for me I would also just have it on my own server)
It is handy...
It would be really handy to share/show iWork files to Windows users...
This feels like a feature for
This feels like a feature for a very small niche group of people. I would much rather hear that the iWork team fixed the bugs in Numbers, such as text data over flow problem in individual cells.
lol that graph is genius!
lol that graph is genius!
Apple uses to "reuse" and
Apple uses to "reuse" and "enhance" technologies it uses.
See, by example, iTunes.
Originally for music, it added podcasts, Universities, movies, tvshows and last --but not least-- apps!
(At the end, this are forms in which it has more users)
Translate that to MobileMe, in speciall, to the "syncing" and "notification" portions of it.
An iWork-kind of augmentantion, as presented, will probably fit, specially as a Snow Leopard example of connectivity.
Maybe it is not a good time yet --after MM launch-- to show it, but it is a good time if tighted to SL.
Apple uses to "reuse" and
Apple uses to "reuse" and "enhance" technologies it uses.
See, by example, iTunes.
Originally for music, it added podcasts, Universities, movies, tvshows and last --but not least-- apps!
(At the end, this are forms in which it has more users)
Translate that to MobileMe, in speciall, to the "syncing" and "notification" portions of it.
An iWork-kind of augmentantion, as presented, will probably fit, specially as a Snow Leopard example of connectivity.
Maybe it is not a good time yet --after MM launch-- to show it, but it is a good time if tighted to SL.
I don't buy this concept
The functionality, as proposed in this post, is lame. I've done lots of collaborative document projects and the features proposed are not very useful. I do see iWork apps on the web, if they allow documents to be edited on the iPhone/iPod touch to be very attractive.
My reasoning can be found on my blog:
http://www.yourmaccoach.com/yourmaccoach/Blog/Blog.html