Each time you update your writings on one device you have to then email copies to yourself to make sure you always have the latest version available.
This is a pretty sad state of affairs and Apple should standardize all Pages document to the Open Document Format (ODF) and Rich Text, both of which are far more open and, ironically enough, are supported by Microsoft.Ĭan you believe that Apple is still offering email as a means to move documents from your mobile devices to your Mac or PC? Email!! What year is this, 2003? Emailing docs works, but it is the absolute most basic way to keep data synced across several devices. Note: It’s hard to believe that, in the text syncing scenario, Microsoft trumps Apple for being more open! Apple Pages documents can only be read by Pages whereas the Microsoft version that was created when you uploaded your Pages documents into can be read by many applications such as Bean, Star and Open Office, TextEdit, MarinerWrite, even the Mac version of Pages. The process of syncing your documents is also cumbersome in the setup you have to log into the then proceed to download any updated documents, making marginally better than just using email. works, but it limits you to making editable versions of you document in iWork or Microsoft Office formats, neither of which are ‘open’ standards, which Apple claims to embrace. If you have any iWork application then you can use to wirelessly sync your documents to the iWork cloud. I still want to sync my stuff now, dammit!
I completely understand that this is not an easy thing to do, and that it must be planned and executed properly in order to insure the best possible user experience. I sure hope this is a ‘coming’ feature, and I sure hope Apple will do it right and allow any and all data from any and all my text producing apps to be wirelessly synchronized, placing data in folders on my Macs, PCs, iPads, and iPhones, and in the cloud as appropriate for each app.
Apple supports automagic cloud syncing for email, calendars, and contacts wirelessly, but not text syncing. Whew! That’s a lot of work for a device that suppose to make my life easier. If you want to work on your documents while out and about then you have to first sync your iPad, then select the document, then sync it again, and the document has to be of a type Pages for iPad will recognize. (Mail?), or you can buy Pages, then export your writings which will appear in the Downloads folder on your Mac (Downloads?). Sync calendars? Oh, sure! Contacts and email? Absolutely! Photos and music? You betcha! Text documents? Ummm, well, you can use the Notes app which syncs your missives in OS X’s Mail app. Apple’s mobile devices can do many things very well, but one feature Apple seems to have trouble with is the ability to sync personally generated text data.
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