Pages for Mac needs an iCloud button to replace "Share"

HERE IS MY QUESTION:
Were we not told that iWork documents would all automatically update on all devices?
What then is this icloud.com/iwork for?
ARE WE WAITING FOR AN UPDATE OF PAGES WITH AN "iCloud" BUTTON THAT REPLACES THE EXISTING "Share" button?
For the time being, here is what I found on the web (AND NOT ON THE APPLE WEBSITE, AT LEAST NOT SO CLEARLY STATED)
"To access your iOS documents from your computer, you will need to use a web browser and go to icloud.com/iwork.
Once you sign in with your iCloud login information, you'll be able to see all of your iOS documents;
click a document to download it onto your computer. (You can choose to download documents in either iWork '09, Microsoft Office, or PDF format.)
To share a document from your computer to your iOS devices, you'll need to drag and drop the document (which can be in either iWork '09 or Microsoft Office format) from your computer into one of the iWork apps on the web browser. The document will then automatically appear on all your iOS devices."
Regards

What then is this icloud.com/iwork for?
It is your personal download portal so that you can access your ios-iwork-files from any internet cafe in the world. because you can download them as pages/numbers/key/ppt/xls/doc/pdf you can then use it in any available office application, be it Microsoft Office on Windows, OpenOffice on Linux or iWork for OSX ..

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victoryhat wrote:
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