Linked by weildish on Wed 7th Jan 2009 02:12 UTC
At MacWorld, Apple announced its new iWork.com beta, a Google-Docs-esque online collaboration application to work closely with the original iWork program to share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with others. When beta testing is over, it will be a paid service (though the monthly price as of yet hasn't been released), much unlike Google Docs, which is free.
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2008-07-15
Maybe it's just my skewed perceptions, but I don't think this is intended to be a competitor to Google Docs, at least not yet. Basically, it's a way to share iWork documents on-line and collaborate, nothing more. Sort of an iWork cloud, if you will. It doesn't seem that on-line editing was even a design goal, nor was it intended to be a web application as google docs is.
That being said, I do think charging for something like that is ridiculous. I really do like a lot of Apple's product line, but some of their business ideas leave me shaking my head. This is one of those, I really don't know how far they're going to get with this, and I can't really see most people or businesses paying for it. But, time and money will tell, I suppose.