Another Death in the Cloud As Apple Kills Off iWork

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Google is retiring the iGoogle page (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/04/0130213/google-killing-off-mini-video-and-igoogle), but on a much shorter time scale, Apple is shutting down an iService of its own: the cloud-storage site iWork.com (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWork.com) (linked to Apple's office apps suite iWork (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWork)) is slated to go offline at the end of this month (http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/apple-shutting-down-iwork-com-july-31/). Says the article, over at SlashCloud: "As of that date, 'you will no longer be able to access your documents on the iWork.com site or view them on the Web,' reads Apple’s note on the matter, followed by a recommendation that anyone with documents on iWork download them to the desktop." Both of these announcements remind me why I covet local storage for documents and the ability to set my own GUI prefs.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/07/05/196236/another-death-in-the-cloud-as-apple-kills-off-iwork