Good on Apple for offering iWork and iLife apps for free with new iOS devices

[G+_Darryl Drury]

Originally shared by James Rogers

 

Good on Apple for offering iWork and iLife apps for free with new iOS devices.

http://isource.com/2013/09/10/iwork-ilife-free-download/

[G+_Dave Trautman]

Apple charges for the desktop apps in iWork and they used to have a less capable app on the iPad. Giving away the mobile version will have little implications for the iCloud service. It may promote the iWork suite of apps by getting them free and later allow sync across devices (as it does now) but they may start charging for the iCloud service when they add collaboration capabilities to iWork over the net. MS Office 360 is by subscription. Apple might (although somewhat differently) offer a subscription to a collaborative version of these apps when they address the problem of collisions between versions being updated.

 

Personally I do not use iWork on the iPad for composition or for developing documents. I do use it for review and editing. The limited fonts on the iPad versions (hopefully expanded in iOS7) make it a bit difficult to do finished work on the iPad. I make complicated documents and find the desktop apps to handle this much better than the iPad versions.

 

Keynote might be nice on an iPhone using AirPlay.

 

Here's hoping all new MacBooks and iMacs get iWork free as well.

[G+_James Rogers]

Dave Trautman I personally think that Apple is going to keep the Internet side free. I think they are trending more toward a free service with a smaller feature set, like Google Docs, rather than the more fully featured offering from MS. But that's just an opinion.

[G+_Dave Trautman]

James Rogers And I think it's a good opinion.  Let's hope free productivity apps get them some credibility in the workplace.