Apple trickles out more iWork

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Apple has been continued send out invitations to users of its iCloud backup and also sync service to try the beta of iWork for iCloud, and the online word processing, spreadsheet and presentation-making apps slated to release everyone later in the year. And Although Apple said nothing about how much, if anything, iWork on iCloud will cost, the executive promised a public beta would launch later this fall. Apple also Registered developers immediately received access to the under-construction apps. Since June, Apple has slowly slowly been extending beta invitations to the public. In the last 2 weeks Computerworld has received ongoing reports of invitations reaching iCloud users' inbox's. The beta supports just three browsers: Apple's own Safari, Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). Apple has promised to expand the list, presumably to Mozilla's Firefox and Opera Software's Opera, both of which run on Windows and OS X. Apple's Other features to-do list include printing, version history and pairing a link with an iWork document stored in iCloud for sharing this with others. Most of analysts believe Apple will give away iWork to iCloud to iPhone, iPad and Mac owners, as it does currently for iCloud itself, as another way to entice customers into buying the Cupertino, Calif. company's hardware. The competition -- Google Docs and Microsoft's Office Web Apps and this is also free. Including Ryan Faas, who frequently writes for Computerworld, have speculated that Apple may see iWork for iCloud as an extension of iWork on iOS and OS X pundits, by other. iWork on those platforms is sold as individual apps, priced at $9.99 for iPhones and iPads, and $19.99 each for Macs. Apple will upgrade iWork this fall, the first time that the OS X version has been refreshed since 2009. Apple would essentially be using the same model as Microsoft, whose Office on the iPhone and Android smartphones runs only if customers also have an Office 365 software subscription. Apple continues to send invitations to the beta of iWork for iCloud .