"With Pages, Keynote and Numbers you can create beautifully formatted documents, stunning presentations with animations and transitions, and spreadsheets with charts, functions and formulas," an Apple press release stated.
Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, gave a hands-on demonstration of the new iWork. He dragged and dropped slides around in the multi-touch version of Keynote, creating new presentations.
Slides can be advanced by tapping or sliding fingers. It can also create automatic animated transitions with graphics Schiller referred to as "just beautiful."
In Pages, documents were created by typing on the virtual keyboard and scrolling by dragging a finger. Tapping on text pops up a keyboard, and turning the device horizontal places a focus on typing.
"It is the most beautiful word processor you've ever used," Schiller said.
He also demonstrated the new version of Numbers, which allows one document to hold many spreadsheets. Rearranging columns is accomplished by tapping and dragging. The virtual keyboard also allows dynamic input, like a time and date keyboard, or more than 250 formulas and functions built in to the application.
The three applications will be available for download from the iPad App Store for $9.99 each.
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add insult, there actually using AT&T as data plan provider for iPad 250Mb for $15 and $30 unlimited (whatever that means) rating back to 6/10.
Get rid of AT&T please.
edit my rating back to 5/10 due to price points provided
To start, anyway at 16GB at $499
$599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. With 3G, add $130 to each. So: $629, $729, and $829.
Maybe it starting to look useful... sorry just saw the price, that's crazy, too many options.
add insult, there actually using AT&T as data plan provider for iPad 250Mb for $15 and $30 unlimited (whatever that means) rating back to 6/10.
Get rid of AT&T please.
edit my rating back to 5/10 due to price points provided
To start, anyway at 16GB at $499
$599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. With 3G, add $130 to each. So: $629, $729, and $829.
I believe the 3g models are going to be a hard sell. Not many are going to be willing to pay another 360.00 a year on top of the data plan they already have with their iPhone.
I told you, I told you, I told you guys. iPhone OS and MacOS are eventually going to merge. With iWork they've begun building in large-screen computing capabilities on iPhone OS. Shit, they even have a keyboard dock for home desktop use. It's happening sooner than I thought.
I wonder how long before Adobe starts porting its large-screen apps to iPad? The tipping point is when MS ports Office to iPad.
I believe the 3g models are going to be a hard sell. Not many are going to be willing to pay another 360.00 a year on top of the data plan they already have with their iPhone.
This is for the people who do not like iPhone screen size and will see iPad has more effective and will go for 3G model.