Apple’s iWork productivity applications that Mac users know and love — Keynote, Pages, and Numbers — have been completely redesigned for iPad.
Users will soon be able to create incredible presentations, word processing documents, and spreadsheets by directly touching the words and images on the large, Multi-Touch™ screen. And each of these apps has been designed specially for iPad, with completely new features. So while they’re simple and easy to use, they’re also the most powerful productivity apps ever built for a mobile device.
They even import iWork ’09 and Microsoft Office documents and allow you to send in iWork ’09 and PDF formats. And because Keynote, Pages, and Numbers will be sold individually on the App Store, you can purchase them all at once, or add exactly the combination you want to your iPad.
Keynote: With custom graphic styles, elegantly-designed themes, stunning animations and effects, and powerful, new features designed just for iPad, Keynote makes it easy to put the show in slideshow.
Pages: Everything you need to create beautiful documents. Including Apple-designed templates and easy-to-use formatting tools. So putting your words into a stunning layout has never been simpler.
Numbers: Create compelling, attractive, spreadsheets in minutes. With over 250 easy-to-use formulas, an intelligent keyboard, flexible tables, and great-looking charts, the answers will literally be right at your fingertips.
Can Keynote be shown through a data projector video out from the iPad? Seems you still need a Mac…
trojan horse for “bidness”…
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MW is “door”
I don’t know about the name iPad. Have you seen the old MacTV sketch? Hilarious!
@ Holy Mackeral
I believe they mentioned during the presentation that the iPad connected to video projectors
Available in April here in Canada. Just in time for my birthday !
You know how you can tell the 12 year olds on here? They get all giggly over the name iPad.
Apple may need to change the name, and I certainly wish they did. Mac-see-Pad or whatever, iTampon is now the 2nd trendiest topic on Twitter eclipsing anything else Apple. I think the product is now simply hijacked by its name and Apple allowed it happen.
For the strangest reason, the moment he declared the name, I had an averse feeling towards it. I realise it’s psychological, but still, it may not be the best way to win hearts with a new product when you invent a new wall between the product and customers, even with the bad publicity is still publicity mantra.
Also, to distinguish between iPod and iPad, c’mon Apple, retire the silly ‘i’ thing already. I love my Apple TV, and using the word Apple can be a brand booster on an already recognised brand.
Finally, I have a feeling, SJ had to cut his originally intended show in half, as he couldn’t get the deal with Hollywood and the Text Book Publishers. They would have been on stage with him otherwise. Maybe, SJ just wanted to get this product out of the house finally after a decade as real artists ship. But I’m not won over by Mr. Ive on this one. The back of this should have been flat, and not an imitation thin trick.
But I’ll take their word for it, this is the most advanced tech they ever worked on, and now I’m very curious with what’s under the hood really.
Yes there is a projector (video) cable available.
iWork 2010 to be available for both OSX and Windows so that Windows sufferers can create their Keynote presentations on their PC and then take the iPad to the client’s office. That’s my prediction anyway.
MDN Magic Word = indeed
As in this is indeed a game changer
HughB writes, “You know how you can tell the 12 year olds on here? They get all giggly over the name iPad.”
A female reporter on an NPR piece suggested there must not have been many women in the room when the name was discussed. So if both 12 year olds and adult women are making that same association, the iPad name may have been a mistake. (It wouldn’t have been my first choice.)
Hold on Just One Minute ! ! !
To Quote: ” … each of these apps has been designed specially for iPad, with completely new features …” So, we long-time loyalists have to get along with (a perfectly acceptable) iWork’09 while the newcomers get iWork’10? Great. Just GREAT ! ! ! Talk about loyalty, will ya!
Truth be told, it looks like most of the “new features” are either designed to make it work on the smaller, fancier hardware or “templates” that have yet to trickle down – up? – to ’09 users. Maybe I’d better log in to my MobileMe account to see if it’s a “bonus offering”.
@ Raymond in DC
Somehow I’ve managed to use note pads, elbow pads, post-it pads, knee pads, gardening pads, heli-pads, and all manner of other pads in the presence of other women without them breaking into hysterical laughter.
I’m sticking with the 12 year old theory.
“iWork 2010 to be available for both OSX and Windows so that Windows sufferers can create their Keynote presentations on their PC and then take the iPad to the client’s office. That’s my prediction anyway.”
Why? You can create on the iPad itself.
Note the iPad apps are separate from iLife 9.99 each
Can you print your Pages document from the iPad ?
I know iTouch users claim they have an App to print, but I do not know which App that is.
Printing is critical for me. I hope there is a way.
aking, there’s no USB port on the thing. It cannot make a physical connection to a printer to drive that device. So, essentially, I’d say “no, you can’t print directly from the iPad …” … unless you have a network printer and the iPad can join the network it’s on. However … you do have iWork. Which very likely means you can access iWork.com or can otherwise share your documents with a local printer – be that the inkjet attached to your iMac or the Kinkos down the street. So, I’d conclude “… it doesn’t really matter.”. You most certainly can get hardcopies of that which you create on the iPad. And I think that’s really the question you are asking.
Interestingly there is a dongle for proving a USB port to connect a camera for downloading pictures. I wonder if it would work or just be one way?
Yes the iPad can drive an external monitor…and not only in MIRROR mode!
As for printing and USB, yes, there’s “dongle” that gives the device a standard USB port. dunno about printer drivers though!??
Guess we have to see what comes bundled with Pages for the iPad
Yes, there are several printing apps that allow you to print from a network printer.. I can’t see any reason why they wouldn’t work from an iPad as well..
Do a search for “Printing” from the app store.
Search for Air Sharing Pro. It prints wirelessly if you have a Mac with Printer Sharing turned on. You can print Pages and other iWork documents as long as you have saved them with the “Include Preview” option turned on.
On the ‘pad’ name, in case no one’s made the connection, what about the ‘Padd’ of Trek and other SciFi versions?
My understanding is the iPad has some additional Trekkie pad history… Way to go Zimmerman!
it seems to me that the creation of iWork for iPad is a great idea and a way to tell Microsoft, that this is the way to advance the PC technology to the next stage so if they want in, then they can create Mobile Office for the iPad as well. Which of course is a big blow to Nokia who is waiting for Microsoft to release that for their devices.
iWork seems to be the straw that will solidify the iPad as more than a multimedia capable game machine.