Image via WikipediaIt has been a complete year since the launch of Apple’s record breaking tablet iPad, along with which Apple also released its office suit titled iWork. It was not only released exclusively on iPad, but also remained exclusive to the tablet until now. Apple has now announced that it will be extending its office suite, which is actually a bundle of productive apps, to be compatible with the small screens of iPhone and iPod touch as well. The iWork apps of Apple, which include a Keynote, Pages and Numbers, will all be available for download in the App Store, at a retail price of $9.99 each. These apps are aimed to give the users elite experience, while using Apple’s smooth operating system and its multi-touch interface, to create presentations, write documents and calculate through spreadsheets. The only reason anticipated for why Apple only kept these apps exclusively for the iPad, and not to other iOS devices like iPhone and iPod, is that these features like advanced word processing would not have been so comfy to do on small screens like iPhone or iPod Touch.
The announcement by Apple today declared that it has now updated all the iWork apps to work in full compatibility on smaller screens, like the ones of iPod touch and iPhone. Even though each of Pages, Keynote and Numbers will be retailed for $9.99 on the iPhone App Store, it will still be free for download to the users who have already purchased these apps on their iPad in advance. Functionality and features of the apps are almost entirely the same as they are on the iPad.
Just like other office suites, for example Microsoft Office or Open Office, the products are ideal for writing work proposals and work through spreadsheets even on iPhone screens. However, it must be admitted that working with your thumbs to do such tedious tasks is much more easygoing on the larger screen of the iPad. Predictably to fit the features on the small screens of iPhone and iPod Touch, some rulers and toolbars have been omitted from the interface, but that’s just for the greater good.
These apps of iWork, namely Pages, Keynote and Numbers, are compatible with the wide range of older generations of iPhone and iPod Touch as well. It will work efficiently with both iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, along with both the third-generation and fourth-generation of iPod touch.
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