Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/09/19/google-makes-quickoffice-for-android-and-ios-free-for-all-bringing-microsoft-office-editing-to-the-masses/

by NewsFlash • 13 years ago

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znowi• 13 years ago

Trying hard to counter-PR the NSA partnership :)

devx2• 13 years ago

More like it was bound to happen just about now, and a year after they purchased it.

anxiousest• 13 years ago

I try to ignore trolls but some comments make me want to self harm.

sahaskatta• 13 years ago

After Apple began offering its office suite for free with all new iOS devices, Google's decision makes sense. However I now have both Google Drive and Quickoffice on my Android smart phone and tablet. These two products overlap a bit too much. They really ought to be a single app.

JulianMorrison• 13 years ago

And I am sure they will. "Works offline" has been a missing feature in Drive for ages.

josteink• 13 years ago

The offline support which was added recently-ish in Drive has worked for me when I needed it, but I must admit I haven't been a very heavy user.

Anything in particular I'm missing?

stevewillows• 13 years ago

With Keep involved, I now have three ways to make a grocery list.

devx2• 13 years ago

If you press the Google Drive button in QuickOffice, it will basically show you what you have in Google Drive, just like the Google Drive app. But yeah, not sure why they're keeping the Drive app around then.

Blara• 13 years ago

To edit old g-docs files, it's not possible with quickoffice yet (I assume they will switch to one app that can edit all formats instead)

snogglethorpe• 13 years ago

Er, well, Google Drive is ... storage.

I don't think of it as an "office app" at all, and it would frankly kind of bizarre to have to use QuickOffice to get at the various tar files, html files, image files, etc, that I've put into G.D....

If anything they should really just share components, with Google Drive invoking Q.O. document editors as appropriate, and maybe a Q.O. app remaining as a thin "office-oriented" frontend (whatever that means).

oridecon• 13 years ago

does it works with ODF files? is it fully compatible with libreoffice or are we getting boxed on closed formats again?

footpath• 13 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Quickoffice used to allow signing in from multiple services? I remember using an older version of Quickoffice that allowed logging in with Dropbox, SkyDrive, etc. while this new version appear to only work with Google accounts.

ZoF5• 13 years ago

You're correct, Quickoffice did allow login from multiple sources in the past.

Obviously Google would remove that feature as they now own Quickoffice, I would have been FAR more surprised if they kept it in.

wslh6• 13 years ago

After reading about the Quickoffice acquisition I was waiting for this moment. Google Drive has more features in the web than as a native application on iOS and Android.

Edit: it's me or Quickoffice is complete crap? I tried opening a document in Google Docs and it opens as PDF! then I created a new document and it doesn't have headings, just like the Google Drive application.

ZoF5• 13 years ago

What kind of document did you open? A PDF???

It's working fine for me, .doc/.docx extensions open in QuickWord as expected.

wslh6• 13 years ago

A Google Drive document.

piyush_soni• 13 years ago

I tried the same - opening a google doc, it "tried" to open that as a pdf, but displayed a blank instead. I waited, and quit the app.

Even if they don't support a format, they could at least display a proper message. "Format not supported". That's purely an overlook.

rpgmaker• 13 years ago

I never understood the hype around quickoffice, it has never been my office app of choice. Now OfficeSuite is a pretty neat piece of mobile office software...

oscargrouch3• 13 years ago

Whatever i see things like this, it reminds me the way the greeks used to see the gods.. as jokers messing around with humans, much like politicians do to us nowadays.. (cause this must be a joke from the gods)

in the eighties the allmighty IBM get crushed by the rookie microsoft because it didnt see the new software wave comming.. and from this new market its arch-enemy was born

now microsoft is falling into pieces, because microsoft in the nineties, didnt see the internet revolution comming (or was afraid to ask), and its killer born from it.

google its not only taking what once was a market dominated by microsoft, but are dominating also in the internet arena.. and if you guys see well .. they have created a "internet as a platform", buying and acquiring all over the ones who create little niches in this BIG massive platform..

my question is.. it will have internet life outside of the google internet platform? and worst yet..

it will have life outside of the corporate internet the took all over? (the people who knew the internet in the beggining of times know what im talking about)

before us all were considered products and advert targets?

eksith2• 13 years ago

"coming". Also sentences should begin with a capital letter.

Sorry, my OCD wouldn't allow me to absorb your otherwise well thought out post.

oscargrouch3• 13 years ago

Sorry about my english! i dont find bad being corrected since thats the only way i can learn with my mistakes? so no problem! thanks

ZoF5• 13 years ago

You question is whether the internet will consist of anything other than Google? Yes, it will.

The internet remains the internet; Google is not creating "the internet as a platform".

Fractured English is usually quite tolerable as long as it's somewhat coherent, but when it comes in the form of a nonsensical rant I find it exponentially less so.

oscargrouch3• 13 years ago

Im not telling, that they ARE already "the platform" im saying that they are trying, that they are slowly becoming.. and if you try to measure in what proportion google services, servers, softwares and platforms make part of the internet, and all the things, software and services you have installed in your machines that are, or consume things from google, will you still think this is a triviality?

Also, there are the inner mechanics of capitalism, with its acquisitions and fusions.. and quickoffice its a example of that..

on the other side, the small companies wont stand against delicious buying offers of billions of dollars..

Capitalism its all about monopoly, isnt? so.. 2 + 2 = ..

Eric schimidt maybe is a small guy, but what a appetite.. :)

nonchalance• 13 years ago

In the age of HTML5 Touch events and websockets, I was hoping to see a web-based office suite. I guess google settled on the native app route.

yareally• 13 years ago

Latency on mobile for editing would be kind of sketchy much of the time I would think. Maybe not so bad on wifi, but elsewhere you're lucky to get pings that are sub 200ms on 3G networks.

Also, the stock browser on Android (the non Chrome one) and also the one built into Android Webviews in apps has no websocket support.

Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all

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