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If you want to edit a document and then save it as a new document you have to make that choice before you start editing on the iPad. A lot of people are going to destroy a lot of documents that way. It could be a simple fix to still keep the same model but right now it's not very intuitive.

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Well that's because we as users have been conditioned to make a copy of a document whenever an edit is required.

What should've been taught, from the very beginning, is that we really should be working on versions of the original document. Not that it's an easy problem in itself to solve... refer to various versioning systems as examples.

I agree. But versioning isn't implemented in the iPad and they may never implement it because it's too complicated for users to understand. Without it, though, any program that just saves your document (permanently) without asking is going to be annoying.

Would anyone be shocked if the iPad eventually featured some version of Time Machine and that versioning just happened automagically in the background?

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