Collaboration is the missing ingredient of iWork for iCloud
Perhaps the most surprising announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference last week was also the most underwhelming. After not releasing any substantial updates to its iWork productivity suite since iPhone versions in 2011, Apple announced that it would be bringing the office apps to yet another platform: the Web.
No, you’re not having déjà vu. Back in 2009, the company also launched a public beta of what it then called iWork.com. Our own editor, Dan Miller, began his first look at that venture by saying:
Let’s make one thing clear up front: iWork.com (in its current pre-release form) is not a collaborative online productivity tool like Google Docs or Zoho.
Unsurprisingly, iWork.com fell flat, and last year it died an ignominious death. And yet, with the announcement of iWork for iCloud, it seems like Apple is poised to make the same misstep all over again.
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