You meant to say invitations. "Invites" is a verb.
"Invite" is also a noun, informally used for "invitation".
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Apple Continues Rolling Out iWork for iCloud Beta Invites
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"Invite" is also a noun, informally used for "invitation".
If they release a new version, wouldn't it be a free update for the people that already have the programs?
Why should I use the third best browser, i.e., Safari? Chrome and FFox are just better.
Better is subjective. You should know that. What you "feel" is better may be the worse to me.
I'm not guaranteeing anything, but try clicking on the "Sign in Now" link in the actual email.
I mean this in the most sincere way but why bother even posting here if you are disinterested in web apps? The thread is about Apple's web apps. I mean, why do people always need to come to a thread and say they are disinterested in the topic at hand and ask about something else that has nothing to do with the discussion?
Think again. Did you build your flash drive? How do you know the drive does not contain a radio transmitter. I'm not saying it does just how would you know.
If you are willing to trust to people in China who made your flash drive then why can't you trust Apple when they say the data in their cloud are encrypted?
In theory you could look at the insides of both the flash drive and the Apple software but few people have the required skills, so they have to trust whoever made it.
I got an invite to iWorks, apples version of google docs. I do have a dev account, but it's what I would call a "soft" dev account. I am registered but it is not a paid account for either OSX or iOS. So their invites must have been extended to some degree, but directly non-devs I guess is still not the case. (except anyone can create a dev account for free)
anyway, looks nice and very apple like... I can see the use for sure, but not convinced it will replace google docs.. maybe in time purely due to convenience for people on iphones that already has a lot of things sync with icloud.
anyway, looks nice and very apple like... I can see the use for sure, but not convinced it will replace google docs.. maybe in time purely due to convenience for people on iphones that already has a lot of things sync with icloud.
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Interesting that Apple is doing this after they seemed to abandon the idea of web apps for "regular" apps. It also seems a bit unfocused when they haven't updated the Mac version of iWork in so long. Documents in iCloud still seems very impractical to me. iCloud is their vision for the next 10 years the way that the Mac being a digital hub was their vision, but it still is a bit nebulous (if you'll pardon the pun)! It seems that rather than being the vision of the next 10 years, they're going to spend 10 years finding out what it's supposed to be. This also seems to go against Apple's video that talked about saying "no" to things.
I'd rather see Apple bring back some things we lost with MobileMe, most importantly: the syncing of system preferences on the Mac.
I'd rather see Apple bring back some things we lost with MobileMe, most importantly: the syncing of system preferences on the Mac.
i am a non developer and i received an invite to use the program and all three programs, pages, numbers and keynote all work for me!
documents don't change in Word as I'm working on them in Google Documents, though
Why? Just because it's a cloud version (which limits utility) of an application suite that nobody uses in the first place?
i got an invite in my email and i'm not a developer, and was able to log into the beta.icloud.com site .... weird...
A flop, really?
Apple already offers iCould, a service that uses far more personal information than iWork, in Europe. If your statement is true, then there should be a mass exodus from iCloud. Please post evidence that supports your claim.
Or, were you just making things up from the get go?
You may have not realized but you probably signed up for a developer account. Doesn't need to be a paid account. I signed up many years ago and actually paid but my account has been dormant for years, I never access it. Still I got the email today and was able to log in perfectly.
I'm very happy about this. I'm a teacher and I much prefer Keynote to PowerPoint, but we have to use Windows at work.
I just got the invite today and played around with it a little. It mostly seems like a port of the iOS version.
I really only ever buy iWork for Keynote though. Numbers isn't even in the same solar system as Excel when it comes to power and usability; just feels like a toy.
They haven't done that in the past.
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Exactly. I would be using iWork 100% if it weren't for Numbers being so bad that I have to go use Excel whenever I want to get a real spreadsheet going.
iWork has badly fallen behind its competitors (Office/gDocs) in terms of features, but it could still serve as a good foundation if Apple were to really invest in it.
- The Mac apps haven't had a significant update since 2009. It was even behind in some areas back then.
- The iOS apps don't contain all of the functionality of the Mac apps. They don't even support all the same features, which means documents are often incompatible.
- Now there is a third target (web apps) to support.
I can't believe Pages still doesn't have a built-in equation editor and has absolutely no support for references. Aren't university students one of Apple's biggest markets?
If Apple added those two things, and brought all the platforms up to that level of feature support, iWork would be a thousand times better.
- The Mac apps haven't had a significant update since 2009. It was even behind in some areas back then.
- The iOS apps don't contain all of the functionality of the Mac apps. They don't even support all the same features, which means documents are often incompatible.
- Now there is a third target (web apps) to support.
I can't believe Pages still doesn't have a built-in equation editor and has absolutely no support for references. Aren't university students one of Apple's biggest markets?
If Apple added those two things, and brought all the platforms up to that level of feature support, iWork would be a thousand times better.