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Apple Prepping for iWork '11 Mac App Store Launch?
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Honestly I don't see a BIG update coming. Some fine tuning sure, finally doing something with the whole iwork.com likely. But anything else, well what is there. A few more templates perhaps. But what else could they do really.
Shifting iweb over to the iwork box and bringing it and the mobile me side of the package more in line with things like rapidweaver, macflux, blogger, wordpress is about the only big and amazing thing I can think of them doing. Especially if they clean up the clumsy coding, duped media folders and add some html5 support.
Google Docs getting better and better everyday...
I love iWork for easily creating great looking spreadsheets and documents. However, I'm finding the collaboration features of Google Docs to be increasingly hard to pass up. My office is using Google Docs to access spreadsheets from anywhere and to work on them simultaneously.
The only downside is that they don't look as good as our spreadsheets made in Numbers. If multiple people could work on Numbers spreadsheets from different locations I would switch my entire office over to Numbers. But if Apple doesn't get in with the cloud bandwagon soon we'll definitely be switching to an all Google Docs solution.
I love iWork for easily creating great looking spreadsheets and documents. However, I'm finding the collaboration features of Google Docs to be increasingly hard to pass up. My office is using Google Docs to access spreadsheets from anywhere and to work on them simultaneously.
The only downside is that they don't look as good as our spreadsheets made in Numbers. If multiple people could work on Numbers spreadsheets from different locations I would switch my entire office over to Numbers. But if Apple doesn't get in with the cloud bandwagon soon we'll definitely be switching to an all Google Docs solution.
Where's the Jobs Keynote Presentation?
Has Apple ever released an update to iWork and not had some sort of presentation to demonstrate the differences?
A quick look on Wikipedia shows iWork announcements corresponding with larger Apple Keynote presentations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWork
If it's launching in early January, then I would suspect some sort of keynote from Apple to show off the App Store, new iWork and maybe new MBPs.
Has Apple ever released an update to iWork and not had some sort of presentation to demonstrate the differences?
A quick look on Wikipedia shows iWork announcements corresponding with larger Apple Keynote presentations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWork
If it's launching in early January, then I would suspect some sort of keynote from Apple to show off the App Store, new iWork and maybe new MBPs.
This past year they have moved to streaming announcements with just the local media present in place of some of the huge keynotes. IF there is an iwork 11 and it does release with the already announced Mac App Store, then this might be a 'smaller' announcement. Particularly if the updates are relatively minor and that's all they are announcing (no hardware etc).
The lack of rumors about what would be changed in new notebooks would be odd if they were going to do it in the next month.
iWeb '11, anyone?
Why abandon iWeb '11 and not iWork '11 when both use same building tools???
I want a new iWeb also, especially since it got almost nothing last time either.
Considering Apple has the iPhone and iPad, it would be cool in iWeb to build sites that are iPhone and iPad specific.
Plus, if they had contact info forms and other more advanced features that would be cool.
I may be switching to Rapid-weaver soon, but I do not like the way the software works.
As someone who uses iWork 09 a lot, I can't really think of what else to add to the iWork suite, other than of course, more compatibility with MS Office apps.
With very few exceptions in Pages and Numbers, I've been very happy with iWork 09.
Guess we'll find out at some point here soon what features '11 has.
With very few exceptions in Pages and Numbers, I've been very happy with iWork 09.
Guess we'll find out at some point here soon what features '11 has.
Missing from the iWork suite: drawing, painting, and database applications.
And there are plenty of features that could be added to Pages (indices, cross-references, figure captions and numbering are feature I could use) and Numbers (solver, statistical functions, better charts).
Not sure what they could do with iWeb. It's a closed program that won't edit existing sites, and won't tolerate hand editing of the html. I looked at it for a couple of minutes and then ignored it. And iDVD, well DVDs are so last decade!
And there are plenty of features that could be added to Pages (indices, cross-references, figure captions and numbering are feature I could use) and Numbers (solver, statistical functions, better charts).
Not sure what they could do with iWeb. It's a closed program that won't edit existing sites, and won't tolerate hand editing of the html. I looked at it for a couple of minutes and then ignored it. And iDVD, well DVDs are so last decade!
