Apple: Apple opens up iWork for iCloud apps to anyone, no need to own an Apple device

Apple opens up iWork for iCloud apps to anyone, no need to own an Apple device


Apple appears to be aiming to tempt Android and Windows users to try out its iWork apps, making Pages, Numbers and Keynote for iCloud available to anyone, with no requirement to own an Apple device. A new banner promoting the offer was last night added to the iCloud beta site, beta.icloud.com … 
The ability to use iWork for iCloud apps is of course of no use without storage space, so accounts created in this way get 1GB of free iCloud storage.
It’s not known at this stage whether Apple plans to roll out the offer to the main iCloud site, or is merely testing the waters on the beta site.

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1. Toro Volt (@torovolt) says: Wow this is significant.
   Apple has to do this if they want a piece of the business market.
   Wonder if the Cloud is enough though.
   Windows 10 is coming and MS Office Apps are in every platform On device and the Cloud for free.
   
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2. philboogie says: That’s unexpected. What’s next, free iPhones, since they have all the money in the world already¿
   
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   • AeronPeryton says: maps.apple.com
     
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     • Michael Tomlin (@mjtomlin71) says: iMessage for other platforms.
       
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   • tilalabubakr says: iWork for Windows?!
     
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     • tilalabubakr says: though I don’t see it coming, at least not in the near future.
       
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     • AeronPeryton says: iCloud.com -is- iWork for Windows. And potentially so much more…
       
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3. joead says: 1 whole GB for free….wow, you really do spoil us Apple.
   
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4. Vlad Airsyn says: nooo.. why?
   
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5. Leon Green says: Big news but to get it right they need to do at least two things:
   Make iWork apps available on other non iOS/ OSX platforms (if they really wanted to go to town they could release FaceTime iMessage too)
   Create iCloud for Enterprise so businesses and organisations can use their email
   If I were Google I’d be very worried right now…
   
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6. Marvin Weide says: It works great using Parallels with Windows 8.1
   
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7. Marvin Weide says: Apple failed to announce that this works on older Macs! I enter iCloud.com in the browser on an old Mac and proceeded to get all my current iCloud data. I am anxious to try this on my 20th Anniversary Mac running 9.2.2.
   
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   • Ben Lovejoy says: Let us know :-)
     
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8. lcfbill says: What about anyone being able to use iCal via a Web app. If your secretary had a PC, you could still iCal and avoid that horrible (IMHO) Exchange calendaring altogether.
   
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