My exact thoughts. I was interested in a suite that would replace MS Office. Office is fine, but I don't feel like paying 100% price for the 5% of the features I would use.

Pages looks interesting and Keynote is probably very useful for those that do presentations, but no spreadsheet program, however simple, makes this a rather half-baked "suite".

There are also free stand-alone spreadsheets available through version tracker...I think the idea behind iWork was not to develope an all-around suite, but to have a top notch word processor that incorporates graphics and templates that can easily be exported to Keynote for presentations.

I think a lot of people misunderestimate what a huge market that is - people who need nothing but graphics, word processing, and presentation software. I know that the secretaries in our office never use spreadsheets, only Word and Power Point. I think this is direct response to that competition.

Apple Works remains available for someone who needs the all-around suite.

I think this is a smart move for Apple. They need to compete with that sector, and the better the graphics compatibility, the more the small-office worker will migrate from programs such as MS Publisher to iWork I believe.

If you read through the graphics forum, you will see constant repition of the same question about programs like Publisher which are easier to use vis a vis templates than programs such as Quark or InDesign.

I honestly think that if someone needs a true office suite, those already exist. iWork is aimed toward a different market.