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Another Death in the Cloud As Apple Kills Off iWork

Posted by timothy on from the ways-of-knowing dept.

Google is retiring the iGoogle page, but on a much shorter time scale, Apple is shutting down an iService of its own: the cloud-storage site iWork.com (linked to Apple's office apps suite iWork) is slated to go offline at the end of this month. Says the article, over at SlashCloud: "As of that date, 'you will no longer be able to access your documents on the iWork.com site or view them on the Web,' reads Apple’s note on the matter, followed by a recommendation that anyone with documents on iWork download them to the desktop." Both of these announcements remind me why I covet local storage for documents and the ability to set my own GUI prefs.

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  1. Welcome to the cloud.... by wbr1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...where your important business data is as misty amd vaporous as its namesake. very eponymous if you ask me, and just as likely to evaporate.

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    Silence is a state of mime.
    1. Re:Welcome to the cloud.... by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, not all clouds evaporate. Sometimes, rather than evaporating, they dump their contents all over, at inconvenient times and locations.

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  2. Re:What? by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give all your data to them! You can *always* trust a multinational corporation to do the right thing!

  3. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you mentally challenged?

    I try to be. I can see why you might prefer to avoid anything mentally challenging though. To each their own.

  4. Re:What makes less sense is the file system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    And it it works, then 5 years from now everyone else will copy the model and Fandroids will talk about how completely obvious it was all along.