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few for now, more every day. it was something that had basic support added in to 3.2 of the OS and more developed support in 4.0. I read something that lead me to believe apps will be able to share documents in 4.0 as well, so upload a PDF once and view it in any program that registers itself capable of viewing PDF files.
interesting, but both apple and Microsoft have discussed developing filesystems that did away with the traditional folder and file management that we use today. both are database based and just store your data with documents registering to act/edit on metatypes of data (word processing document, spreadsheet, graphics image). apple dropped it because it wasn't ready yet and so did Microsoft from longhorn/vista. the iPhone/iPad still uses unix filesystems under it all but apple's presentation to apps and the user are more along these lines. "don't worry about sticking things in folders, just launch your word processor and have it open a document." you certainly see this mentality with the iWorks apps. my only complaint is that there is going to have to be some better way for scrolling through a huge list, even left-to-right swipes to find one document out of the 20 or so I loaded into Numbers is a bit of a pain. so we still need some sort of folder metaphor. guess we wait and see where apple goes with all of this.
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