While I think Apple is nailing the “productivity app in a web browser” part, they still have work their work cut out for them on the collaboration part. The changes were added to the cloud-based versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote and. If he typed anything on his side (even just a space bar), I got a conflict message on my end and had to pick a version to become gospel. Apple today updated iWork for iCloud with support for up to eight new languages and more than 50 new fonts. Basically, we discussed and I wrote and he waited for the changes to show up, which happened about 30 seconds after I typed. While the experiment ultimately worked and he could see what I was typing, it was hardly simultaneous. I figured that if the application can support 100 collaborators, it should be pretty solid with just two. Yesterday I had a small writing project with a Mac-savvy client and I decided to do it collaboratively with him using iCloud Pages. While Apple is now moving this direction, it hasn’t got there yet. I’ve used that tool for years and, while it isn’t all that pretty, it absolutely nails the ability to have multiple people typing on one document at the same time. Google Documents really is the standard for online document collaboration. It was this bit that had me most interested. One of the other updates was the ability to have up to 100 collaborators. You may even forget that you are doing this all in a browser.
If you haven’t yet, log into your iCloud account and create a document in iCloudy-Pages. Apple opens iWork for iCloud beta to registered developers Steve Sande stevensande J2:00 PM One part of Mondays WWDC 2013 keynote that seems to have received short shrift in. With iWork for iCloud you can work right in your browser. What’s more, it’s compatible with Microsoft Office, so now everyone can work together. The experience really is quite remarkable. iWork for iCloud is the easiest way to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations right in your browser. The improvements include more fonts, more chart options, and the ability to handle larger sized files. This week, Apple released some pretty nice upgrades to the web-based iWork apps in iCloud.
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