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iWork to Become a Web Application at Macworld?

slu said:
This. And I wonder how many of these people even have iWork on their Macs?
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I do.

I also hope that the local version of iWork will get updated too. And if they are, what about iLife?

MasterNile said:
That's what I'm doing, I've read every post in this thread and 90% of them seem to say "they will not make it all web based but supplement it with web based apps" but I really don't know who they're arguing against since the original article doesn't say that it will be completely web based, only Arn's shortened version of the article says that, which I figure he will correct soon.
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Because the original article suggests that iWork may move to web, with only Safari DB as a "local" copy.

9 to 5 mac said:
Will there be traditional apps that go along for offline access - or will this use Safari's new Offline DB/SproutCore framework functionality?
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akonradi said:
If they're proposing the next revision of iWork to be browser based, then our good friend Steve Ballmer has some money heading his way to Redmond.
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I'm with you I'm afraid. Keynote is the single reason I still use a Mac. Shaft it by taking it online and I'm done.

Fixt Keynote as it is. You can't export with narration as it goes out of sync. It will, sometimes, for no reason, corrupt images, text or slides. It is so very very nearly perfect - just a tiny few tweaks.

Web Apps are crap. They all are. Their only use is for collab work. They are totally unsuitable for production of media rich presentations and documents. I've got presentations that are 50, 100, 200 meg in size, rammed full of videos, audio etc. Not only that - the chances of having net access when use a keynote presentation are slim to none.

possibly the most stupid idea I've heard in pre MW rumours ever.
 
arn said:
I added clarification. The line "entirely browser based" wasn't written to imply that there would be no native version, but that the entire application would be implemented in the browser.

Though, 9to5 doesn't seem to know if it native versions will continue to exist. All they are "sure" about is that there are web versions coming.

arn
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That should help. You can see how many readers latched onto the word "entirely" and took it to mean that iWork would become web-based only. That's what I thought when I first read it, or until I checked the 9to5 article.

Well, it should help anyway. People just need to read it. ;)
 
Even if this runs twice as well as the current MobileMe web apps, it's still going to be complete crap. I'll use MS Office if they switch iWork to a webapp
 
As long as I can use iWork without the internet too and the web app feature of it is free, I'm happy.

Maybe I can actually do something productive on the really old PC's at school if iWork is also a web app.
 
yuck, web apps suck! but maybe... and forgive me for not having gone through all the posts (sick on new years blah) just maybe these online versions are for the iPhone and not the desktop???
 
To me making them webkit based means they could run native on iPod Touch and the Mac with little native processor code to keep the speed good. But does allow for a hosted version as well.

Sounds to me like the big Touch is coming.
 
BWhaler said:
Some argue that if it is an "addition" instead of "replacement" to the desktop apps, then that will be cool.

I argue the opposite.

I'd rather have the addition of iPhone apps or make the current set better--faster, less bugs, etc. MobileMe has enough serious issues still, and after finally getting caught in 2008 for the increasing quality issues of the past few years, Apple should do less, and do it better.
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I agree. Everything is a tradeoff. Even if the web-based versions *are* an addition, we are still missing out on the other new apps we could have had, if Apple hadn't been developing this. Such as an Apple Access or Visio.
 
No Apple. Make your Textedit app a webapp and give us some basic ones. But please keep Numbers and Pages as native apps.
 
kcroy said:
Does that mean I cannot work on Pages, Numbers, etc. without having an internet connection????

How in the world would that work with Keynote?

I cannot imagine the suite being entirely web-based that just doesn't make sense. (Airplanes, poor signals, subway, ...so many places people work with their applications without signals.)
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lol remember microsoft wants to make everything "on the cloud". lame lame lame
 
Think Cocoa Web Services

I'm seeing Cocoa Web Services between MobileMe and iWorks via the Services submenu that allows for one to have applications stored on the server being plausibly sync'd with the client [laptop, iPhone, iPod Touch, etc] for a way to extend functionality of iWorks to be a Distributed Office Suite.

I see the Mobile End being Read-Only docs/spreadsheets with layers for collaboration editing/comments that allow for group feedback while the native application suite gets managed in-house for clients [hospitals, military, government, legal, education, etc.] with their primary authors.

Moving to a Web based only solution is DOA. OpenOffice.org 3.0 proves this emphatically.

These Distributed/Cloud Services can be managed via MobileMe for a limited, but a broad set of common needs for basic day to day business needs. Making Mobile Me rich content extended via Cocoa Web Services to link embed xml files that are control files for backend paths to server managed application files [documents, spreadsheets, presentations] can be handy when one doesn't want to have dozens upon dozens of copies of corporate docs easily available for thievery.
 
I can see developing iWork Lite for handhelds. Perhaps this is what they are talking about?
Seriously doubt they would do away with buying the disk at the store option.

Look forward to the update which I hope happens next week. I use iWork a lot.


And damn it! How about an iWeb refresh as well please.
 
B. Hunter said:
I can see developing iWork Lite for handhelds. Perhaps this is what they are talking about?
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It's possible, maybe Apple is doing this so that the apps don't consume 1 GB or so on an iPod touch or mini-tablet with 16/32 GB memory. But still, I'd prefer a non-web iWork on a mobile device.
 
The only good news about this rumor is that it sounds like a new version of iWork is on the way, hopefully for Macworld.

I would love for there to be companion apps, but I do not like the idea of all online at all, nor do I want to have the apps running offline through Safari. Time will tell.
 
This is the interesting line from the article:
Will this work on iPhone/iPod touch?
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I would hope this means some sort of native app for the iPhone/iPod touch which would be useful to a degree but no replacement for ten fingers and a proper keyboard. Though it would be nice way to make last minute edits to a document.
 
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