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  • Apple Event: iWork, iMovie, iPhoto To Be Free With New iOS Devices

    Apple announced today that its iWork suite of productivity apps will be free with the purchase of new iOS devices. That includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote. iMovie and iPhoto will also be free.

    “We think that iWork is a really key advantage for our customers’ productivity, and iPhoto and iMovie are great for their creativity,” said CEO Tim Cook is quoted as saying. “Almost all of our customers want these apps.”

    The news came out of Apple’s big event where it unveiled the iPhone 5S and 5C, and announced that iOS will be released on September 18th.

    In June, at Apple’s WWDC, the company announced iWork for iCloud, making the iWork suite essentially a direct competitor to Google Docs.

    More Apple coverage here.

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  • Apple Announces iWork For iCloud, Its Answer To Google Docs

    At its Worldwide Developers Conference today, Apple announced its answer to Google Docs, iWork for iCloud. This is a browser-based version of Apple’s productivity suite, iWork, which works on a Mac or a PC.

    Pretty straight forward. It’s iWork, but cloud-based. It works for Pages, Numbers and Keynote. It also works on non-Apple browsers, and on Windows. Public beta will be available this year.

    Ahead of the unveiling, CEO Tim Cook said that iCloud is the fastest-growing cloud service ever. It’s up to 300 million accounts since launch.

    “It took Facebook five years to reach this many accounts,” he noted.

    iTunes for iCloud users have re-downloaded their content 35 billion times. Game Center, has 240 million users, he said. There have been 800 billion iMessages sent, and 7.4 trillion push notifications delivered.

  • iWork.com Shuts Down on July 31, Time To Clear Out

    It seems that now is not a good time to be using one of Apple’s older cloud services. This morning we brought you news that Apple had, as promised, pulled the plug on MobileMe over the weekend, giving users one last chance to clear their data out or lose it forever. Now Apple’s other cloud service – the iWork.com beta – is on its last legs as well. Just like with MobileMe, iWork.com’s features are getting rolled into iCloud.

    Apple opened up the iWork.com beta in 2009 to provide iWork users a way to store and edit their documents in the cloud. A year later, though, they announced iCloud. In March of this year, they announced that the iWork.com beta would be closing down on July 31st. With MobileMe officially done, iWork.com is the last of Apple’s non-iCloud cloud services.

    Today, Apple started sending out emails to iWork.com beta users reminding them that the service would be shutting down at the end of the month and encouraging them to migrate their data to iCloud. They’ve also put a rather prominent notice up on iWork.com, to the same effect:

    iWork.com Closing July 31

    So, the moral of the story is, if you’re still using a cloud service from Apple that isn’t iCloud, you’d be best advised to go ahead and move your stuff.

  • Apple About To Launch New Pages, iBooks Software?

    Apple About To Launch New Pages, iBooks Software?

    All anyone knows for certain about the Apple event that starts in just a few minutes is that it is related to education. The rumor mill is generally agreed, though, that the announcement will involve textbooks and iBooks in some way. There have even been rumors of a “GarageBand for e-books,” a tool that would streamline the creation of e-book files. Now, just before the event, there are a few new details emerging. Jason O’Grady of ZDNet posted the following Tweet late last night:

    @JasonOGrady
    Jason O’Grady    A little birdie told me that Roger Rosner will announce Pages ’12, iBooks 2 (with Lion support) and textbook rentals in NYC today. 9 hours ago via Itsy! · powered by @socialditto

    Pages has been overdue for an update for awhile now, so a new version of Pages (and iWork in general) is not at all unlikely. Likewise, users have been clamoring for iBooks on OS X since iBooks was announced with the first iPad in 2010.

    Whatever Apple has in store is bound to be interesting, though. The announcement is scheduled for 10 AM Eastern time. Check back soon for more details.

  • Apple iWork Apps Come to iPhone, iPod Touch

    Apple has announced the availability of its iWork productivity apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. These apps include Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.

    The apps have been redesigned for the touch interface of iOS (which will be getting an upgrade of its own next month). Each of the apps runs $9.99 (though existing iWork for iPad users can upgrade for free).

    “Now you can use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod touch to create amazing presentations, documents and spreadsheets right in the palm of your hand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The incredible Retina display, revolutionary Multi-Touch interface and our powerful software make it easy to create, edit, organize and share all of your documents from iPhone 4 or iPod touch.”

    Apple says the apps come with improved document management, with thumbnail images and “use of “intuitive” gestures, as well as easy sharing of presentations, documents, and spreadsheets without leaving the app.

    With the Keynote app, users can play presentations in Full Screen view on the Retina display or connect to a projector or HDTV. There is also a separate Keynote remote app that lets your iPhone or ipod Touch control a presentation on any iOS device or Mac.

    Pages also utilizes the Retina Display, and includes Smart Zoom, which lets the user zoom in to follow the cursor while editing, and zooms back out when done. The same goes for Numbers.

    Each of the apps runs on iPad and iPad 2, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4, and iPod touch (3rd & 4th generation). They’re $9.99 a piece, except for the Keynote remote app, which is only 99 cents.

    Apple also announced today that Steve Jobs will be appearing at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, where Apple will reveal the next versions of Mac OS X, iOS, and new cloud services called iCloud.