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Apple's Site Again Hints at iWork for iPhone

editing and comments

I'd actually use this a lot...probably because I don't have an iPad...yet. I can completely see myself sitting in meetings, having documents emailed to me, opening them up, commenting on them, and sending them back.
 
I think a scaled down version of iworks for the iphone would be awesome.
When you consider how much people text which can be re-interpreted as writing a paper on whatever then yes iwork for the iphone does make lots of sense. Especially if the controls are designed to make for efficient input.
 
radicalcentrist said:
I'd actually use this a lot...probably because I don't have an iPad...yet. I can completely see myself sitting in meetings, having documents emailed to me, opening them up, commenting on them, and sending them back.
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commenting and markup, maybe ... but I can't see myself doing content creation (comfortably). Having quick access to spreadsheets for example would be helpful.

P.
 
This has been on the UK site since June 15th on the iPhone pre-order page.
I remember it standing out as a bit odd then, but didn't realise it hadn't actually been announced!
 
Cousin Dirk said:
We're not likely to see this until we get iOS 4.0.1 that brings with it iTunes File Transfer that disappeared from the iOS 4 betas, otherwise it'll be pretty useless.
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Disappeared? iTunes shows a "File Sharing" section (in the "Apps" tab) for me and the Stanza App is listed there.

That said, this is a very good thing. Most of you seem to be anti the idea of word processing on an iPhone; I myself have written a 1,000 word script on the Notes app and would rather something a bit better suited to the task (no, not another device). It'll also be nice to be able to edit Office documents.

Hopefully this is true!
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Agreed :D

One killer scenario would be commenting on, or fixing, an existing document.
 
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This is interesting to me and I wouldn't be surprised to see it but I think that with the screen size it is not practical. We will see soon I suppose.
 
I wouldn't use it much, but would probably buy it and store copies of important presentations on my iPhone, just in case I was traveling on business and had my laptop bomb. I could just pull it up on the iPhone and present via the dock-to-vga dongle.

Not ideal, but much better than either A) not-presenting or B) being forced to present a static PDF document without transitions, etc.
 
ianray said:
Disappeared? iTunes shows a "File Sharing" section (in the "Apps" tab) for me and the Stanza App is listed there.
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Odd, it doesn't appear for me. Maybe I don't have any apps that support the feature. But I thought that was one of the ways we were supposed to be able to transfer PDFs into iBooks?
 
Cousin Dirk said:
Odd, it doesn't appear for me. Maybe I don't have any apps that support the feature. But I thought that was one of the ways we were supposed to be able to transfer PDFs into iBooks?
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iBooks does not show up in that iTunes "File Sharing" screen -- so I have been importing PDFs to iBooks via email! :eek:
 
I would purchase this either way

but it would be much more useful if it was accompanied by the release of a keyboard-dock (a la iPad) for the iPhone.
 
bvskoog said:
but it would be much more useful if it was accompanied by the release of a keyboard-dock (a la iPad) for the iPhone.
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iOS 4 allows BT Keyboards on the iPhone. I believe the dock connected keyboard works too, can't remember where I saw that though.
 
Beric said:
I just want the ability to play presentations on a projector off an iOS device.
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Seconded. For me, that would be by far the most useful aspect of a possible iWork on iPhone. I've converted presentations to QuickTime before and used an iPod, but this would be much better.
 
ianray said:
iBooks does not show up in that iTunes "File Sharing" screen -- so I have been importing PDFs to iBooks via email! :eek:
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Click on the 'books' link on the left menu bar in iTunes, then drag the PDF file from Finder/Windows Explorer into the books library on the right pane.
 
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