Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time collaboration

Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by sidcool on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:50PM (#12445488)

More like catches up. No small achievement, but it was about time.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by BFatts on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:36PM (#12447400)

It's honestly a game of innovate or catch up. It's not like Apple is unique in this...

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by sidcool on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:29AM (#12450968)

Exactly! And yet they make that face like this is the first time anyone has thought about it. I know it's for the marketing and RDF, but still. Collaborative editing was solved by Google Wave.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by avdempsey on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:03PM (#12447000)

Is realtime collaboration offered in any competing desktop apps? On the Mac at least there is none in Office.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by dragonwriter on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:29PM (#12447295)

> Is realtime collaboration offered in any competing desktop apps?

Office 2016 does have realtime collaboration in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, in both the desktop and online apps.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by tkubacki on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:39PM (#12450139)

Desktop office is not real time - it's synced and since office web sucks compared to gDocs - gDocs win new markets.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by stuffedBelly on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:25PM (#12447243)

MS's OneNote has real-time collab capability.

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Re:Apple takes on Google and Microsoft with iWorks real-time... by IMcD23 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:28AM (#12450314)

Office 2016 has real-time collaboration on the Mac, and has for quite some time.

Source: I work on Office for Mac at Microsoft.

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