I do not find it to be a big issue, I was simply commenting on the details I was aware of - as Apple hasn't made a demo of keynote available and I'm currently debating purchasing it (leaning towards a big: yes!)

I think many people are used to dial-up from home and connecting into the office and having to download the latest powerpoint file someone sent around to the whole deptartment.

I work in a company of 2500 people, the headquarters I work at has roughly 300 employees and 80% of them send around most of their data in powerpoint. They even send me web content in powerpoint... Unlike me, most people here don't have broadband at home.

I know I am not going to start getting a boatload of keynote files anytime soon - but I am guessing this is the reasoning for some people? Personall I don't see keynote files being sent around in the first place - except between a small sales/production staff working on a presentation. I would imagine most people will use keynote to do *shock* the presentation and then export it to PDF for delivery as an addition to a white paper or whatever.

My understanding is that Keynote is using an XML based file format as well... the size is suppose to be quite a bit bigger than PowerPoint - but at least people can build around it.