That wouldn't be all that terrible, since you're not losing anything in the conversion. You've still got the same functionality you had before, and access to your same files, just in a different app.
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Google Releases New Universal 'Quickoffice' iOS App for Free
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That wouldn't be all that terrible, since you're not losing anything in the conversion. You've still got the same functionality you had before, and access to your same files, just in a different app.
Well, more or less the same functionality.
GDocs has a horrible interface and we'd all have to go to that. Not that this has an amazing interface anyway.
I think it all depends on if Google things they can get any benefit out of it, for themselves, or their users.
It's very possible they could do something boneheaded and gimp it up to the point it's nothing more than a glorified GDocs just because they can. But if they do happen to do something boneheaded, everyone has some other option to fall back on. If you don't want to use QuickOffice, you can use Pages with iCloud support, or any of the other dozens of word processors out for iOS that support Dropbox and more. I think Google knows this, which makes them less likely to do something extreme unless it gives their app a huge advantage in functionality or ease of use.
Or, it could be because... overall, Google doesn't do interfaces well. They hit gold every once in a while, but sometimes they just aren't all that good. I'm looking at you, Google Currents, GMail, obviously GDocs, and the web version of Drive. :|
So what? This app is for editing MS Office files directly. If this app ends, you still have the MS Office files you can access from any app that supports it. There's no way Drive is going to end but Quickoffice provides a way to not deal with converting files to Google Docs format which is important for some people. Quickoffice doesn't even require you to buy into any particular ecosystem except for MS Office.
Yeah, but that's an entirely separate issue. One of the reasons I think Google won't mess with this all that much is that they realize GDocs is pretty limited compared to what the competition is offering, and they need a standalone product to compete.
I'm not saying they won't do something weird and dumb, because every company out there is capable of thinking a bad idea sounds like a good one. I'm saying that they probably won't because they know their strengths and weaknesses, and know there's always some other product breathing down their necks, ready to pick up their audience the moment they fail.
And... for some reason you can't edit Google's own format. As in... I went to go open up a document I made on Google Docs and got told it's view only. If I want to edit, I need to have Google Drive installed.
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What?
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What?
Google......
another time stealing the thunder a little bit from Apple.Very true in this case, if the free iLife/iWork offer only applies to new devices.....No matters the QuickOffice only lets see the files. On the run, many times one only needs to see the Microsoft things......
another time stealing the thunder a little bit from Apple.Very true in this case, if the free iLife/iWork offer only applies to new devices.....No matters the QuickOffice only lets see the files. On the run, many times one only needs to see the Microsoft things......
So they took a perfectly working app, dumbed it down and removed printing support. WTF?
I would love to go back to DocsToGo, but they have pitiful support as well and still no printing option. I understanding printing is not as widespread as it was a few years ago,, but I'd like support for it there. Looks like SmartOffice is the only one fitting the bill so I'll switch to that for now.
I would love to go back to DocsToGo, but they have pitiful support as well and still no printing option. I understanding printing is not as widespread as it was a few years ago,, but I'd like support for it there. Looks like SmartOffice is the only one fitting the bill so I'll switch to that for now.
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They didn't remove printer support. I just checked the app, myself, and there is a print option there in the top-right corner of the screen when you have a document open.
Wow, I musta been under a rock. I'm still using Quickoffice Pro HD, and don't even recall hearing about the Google take over.
If I download this new app, I wonder if my iPad will see it as a completely separate app, or if it'll overwrite my Pro HD app. It'd be nice to try before I "buy", so to speak. Anyone out there have any experience with this?
I've done just that. It shows up as two completely separate apps, each with it's own icon. Essentially your existing Pro HD app is left exactly as it was and a band new dumbed-down app for QuickOffice is installed as well.
I had hoped that, if I went into my old Pro HD app and did an "Open in..." operation on the docs I had stored, the newly installed Google dumbed-down variant of QuickOffice would at least register itself as an opener of the docs so that I could easily transfer some files from the old app to the new app but they are so separate that the new app won't even accept an "Open in..." request from the older version.
Also be aware that the old Pro HD version is now withdrawn from the app store so be very careful not to delete any locally stored copy if you want to carry on using it. I'm probably going to switch to DocsToGo (which I also bought) but for now I intend to carry on using the old Pro HD version of QuickOffice.
Thanks for the info -- just what I wanted to know.
But based on what I'm hearing, I guess I'm in no rush to try out the new version, and will try to be careful with the ProHD app.
as a google docs user as well as an occasional drive app user this app is quite disappointed but i guess im not the target audience.
i wonder why they dont merge the two into one app.
does anyone know exactly what google has implemented from quickoffice into their products?
i wonder why they dont merge the two into one app.
does anyone know exactly what google has implemented from quickoffice into their products?
Wow. I can edit Office documents AND send all my data to Google at the same time.
This is way better than stabbing myself in the eye, then stabbing myself in the hand.
Way better.
This is way better than stabbing myself in the eye, then stabbing myself in the hand.
Way better.
OK, I stand corrected. I tried the sample documents and those could be edited and printed as before. But the documents I already have in the cloud won't show the editing or printer icons. If I drag the sample docs to the cloud they still work, so it must hate the documents I have there for some reason.
Oh boy, another person who is obsessed with "but my data". If you're on the internet, somebody is getting your data.
Possibly. But why make it easy for them?Oh boy, another person who is obsessed with "but my data". If you're on the internet, somebody is getting your data.
I've been a paid user of QuickOffice for years. I like the fact that certain confidential info stays on my phone and my mac and doesn't go into a cloud somewhere.
Time to migrate to something else, I guess.
(BTW: Didn't know Google had acquired QuickOffice, so thanks for bringing it to my attention.)
You don't get it. Apple would prefer not to do apps. They do them because the quality of what is offered is not as good as they feel it should be, or to keep any company from limiting our apps to gain advantage as Google and Microsoft has done to them before. When the put a horse in the race the other companies step up their game quick.
