Apple looking to expand iWork.com to full editing suite?
updated 12:10 pm EST, Sun December 27, 2009
Job listing hints full iWork web app
Apple may be expanding iWork to become a full web app, a job listing has revealed this past week. The company is looking for an Applications Engineer who would help develop a "scalable rich Internet application" and work on the very heart of the design. The new recruit would have to develop both presentation and word processing apps.
The ad is also significant in that it appeared on CrunchBoard but was not visible on Apple's recruiting page at the same time, hinting at Apple reaching out specifically to a very web-centric community.
It's not evident from the posting just what Apple's goal would be, though continued development at all suggests a significant expansion beyond what iWork.com offers today. To date, the site has primarily been a collaboration tool that lets multiple users view the same document and add notes. Actual editing remains offline and greatly limits iWork compared to other web-based apps, such as Google Docs or Microsoft Office Live.
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They should spend more time on mobile me
They should focus more of their efforts on mobile me, gmail, yahoo mail runs circles around Mobile Me web mail, they all work in IE, and have server side mail rules they also load a heck of alot faster. iDisk could also you alot of work the storage is there but transferring files can be cumbersome apps like dropbox and even dare I say it Microsoft Live Mesh work better than iDisk.