AppleInsider Staff
Following the release of iOS 8 on Wednesday, Apple rolled out updates for its iWork productivity app suite, bringing the titles up to speed with the company's latest mobile operating system.
So far, Apple has released Numbers and Keynote and Pages, all of which have reached version 2.4.2, with added support for iOS 8.
Looking at the release notes, it appears that the productivity suite is getting only a minor update to add support for Apple's latest iOS, which launched earlier today. The new versions are also compatible with iCloud Drive, but without OS X 10.10 Yosemite, the cross-platform file syncing and storage service is of limited use.
Apple notes the latest software comes with stability improvements and bug fixes.
Numbers and Keynote weigh in at 241MB and 459MB, respectively. Users who recently purchased an iOS device can download the apps for free from the iOS App Store, while those with older hardware can buy the apps at a price of $9.99 each.
Update: Apple has released Pages version 2.4.2 with the same iOS 8-centric changes seen in Numbers and Keynote. The app weighs in at 276MB and can be downloaded from the iOS App Store. The article has been updated to reflect the new information.
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Interesting. Huge downloads just like iOS8. The update took over 1 hour on a 50MB link. And doing iOS8 update from iTunes was not available as an option.
Also a neat GarageBand update with some choice productivity enhancements.
At this rate Apple would be giving Netflix a run for their money with who is causing the most bandwidth usage on the net. Even with all the new servers they have coming online it's going to be a while before there is enough server capacity for this many simultaneous downloads. Can't imagine what it will be like next year with even more users and added devices like the AppleWatch as I would assume updates for that would role out at the same time as iOS 9 would be released.
iWork for iCloud now works with iCloudDrive.
[quote name="Lolliver" url="/t/182354/apple-updates-iwork-for-ios-suite-with-support-for-ios-8-stability-fixes#post_2601008"]At this rate Apple would be giving Netflix a run for their money with who is causing the most bandwidth usage on the net. Even with all the new servers they have coming online it's going to be a while before there is enough server capacity for this many simultaneous downloads. Can't imagine what it will be like next year with even more users and added devices like the AppleWatch as I would assume updates for that would role out at the same time as iOS 9 would be released.[/quote]Probably by then apple will have added more servers to hold bandwidth, don't you think they add X amount for each added device per year, espicially a larger amount for this new product category, I haft to wonder now is how will the watch update, plug to itunes on computer or it via wifi, your iPhone do it? It itself, and then there's question on IPhone part does it download strait to device or does IPhone host it whole time?