Apple is not testing the waters with iWork.com, so much as building it from the ground up slowly to give more attention to the development process than Microsoft, and even Google, are known for. This is Apple. They will not turn out a half-baked product for the mass-market. iWork.com is a must for the future, and Apple is certainly aware of this. They’re just taking their time to get it right the first time, and only make it better and better after users get to experience working with it.

I look forward to using iWork.com when it is running properly. I think Apple is still in the game, and with time, they will earn their rightful place in cloud-computing and user-friendly features to the online working platforms.

I find articles like this that even *talk* about “iWork.com” as if it’s an actual “thing” to be humorous at best.

“iWork.com” is a placeholder for a future service that may or may not appear. it is in no way already implemented, partially implemented, or even a “good start.” MobileMe users can share documents through email and present them on the web. This is such a small, insignificant, thing and something not just already available other places, but available for *years* at other places. To talk about it as really *anything* at all, or to imply as this article (and many others) do and have done as an early start on something we will eventually refer to as “iWork.com” is merely to buy into the Apple marketing plan.

I’m sure it will be something eventually and as I said, I’m a big fan in general, but ‘iWork.com” doesn’t really exist yet, and articles that imply that it does are just too funny for words. They are not articles at all, but rather advertisements or fan-boy ravings.

However, I have used it for retail signs, so if I found a place that was hiring or a house for sale, I could take a picture, and search for it later. Evernote is excellent on that account.

For example, using an iPhone camera, a stack of business cards, and evernote app on my iPhone, I created a business card database that allows me stunning visual images of all of my business cards, a searchable database that literally searches the print on each business card, allows me to nearly use a coverflow finger movement to visually peruse my business cards.

That is one of a ton of databases that I can create with simplicity, jus works, and is synched flawlessly between my Apple devices for FREE.

Of course, there is a monthly data limit with evernote, a desktop application required, and a monthly subscription fee (a la MobileMe) for a more formidable set of options.

As a MobileMe user for many years, I wish that Apple’s service had features like Evernote’s (but using Apple’s stylish advantages to maintain cinsistency with the Mac OSX).

Thank you.