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Apple Announces iCloud and iWork For iOS

Posted by Unknown on from the computers-are-for-entertainment-only dept.

iONiUM writes "Through a press release ahead of WWDC, Apple has revealed that it will be releasing its own cloud service to rival Google and Amazon's. In addition, they will unveil the new iOS, and the latest desktop OS." Apple also announced the release of the iWork suite for iOS devices.

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  1. Re:Looking forward to Lion by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 4, Informative

    That depends on your definition of "systemwide." I doubt that every program that runs on Mac OS X will have autosave or resume functionality; it will probably involve some sort of hook into the system. Such a framework existed in KDE3, where KDE applications could all resume after KDE was restarted (and this probably exists in KDE4), and all KDE applications had autosave (as far as I know).

    Now, if Apple has written an operating system that enables autosave and resume for any application, even X11 applications, I will be very impressed.

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  2. iWork for iOS (summary clarification) by FunnyStrange · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not seeing this upthread, but might be redundant by now: The iWork announcement was for the "small" iOS devices (iPhone and iPod Touch). Those apps have been available for iPad (also iOS) for over a year. The update makes them universal. If you own them for iPad, they'll now work on the other devices (it's a free upgrade).