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IWork gets real-time collaboration

We’ve got a much improved Apple Watch, a whole new product range from Apple in the form of Airpods.

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Apple’s iWork suite is going to go head-to-head with Google and Microsoft with its new real-time collaboration features.

The iPhone maker has added real-time collaboration to iWork, its suite of productivity apps, the company announced at its event on Wednesday in San Francisco.

Yep, you can work on documents, spreadsheets, and Keynote stacks with co-workers or classmates in real-time.

It’s certainly been a long time coming.

Above: Apple’s Everyone Can Code initiative will use Swift Playground, an iPad app that teaches coding. A Participants list in Keynote showed the users working on the presentation, each represented with a different color.

Interestingly, Apple had invited Microsoft onto its stage at its keynote event almost a year ago when the company introduced the iPhone 6S, the Apple Watch and the iPad Pro.

Susan Prescott gave on-stage demonstration of the iWorks system, showing how the network of apps makes it easy to update documents on the fly while communicating with co-creators in a seamless fashion.

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iWork operates across all Apple iOS and Mac devices.

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