OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20737/Apple_To_Vie_With_Google_Docs Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:36:09 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Doesn't look like they are competing with google... http://osnews.com/thread?342671 http://osnews.com/thread?342671 http://www.officelive.com/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments Paid service? http://osnews.com/thread?342701 http://osnews.com/thread?342701 Why are they going to charge money for a webservice everyone else is offering for free. I guess they want a piece of the webapp-market but that is not the way to get it.

The service doesn't even allow online editing, so everybody who want to edit something needs iWorks to do it. While with google docs you can export your document to odf/rtf/pdf/doc OR edit it online.

So a worse service for more money! Too bad google doesn't give you an option to buy your privacy + ad-less interface back, the only reason I see for not using there service in an corporation.Edited 2009-01-08 14:02 UTC Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arno) Comments RE: Paid service? http://osnews.com/thread?342780 http://osnews.com/thread?342780
Why are they going to charge money for a webservice everyone else is offering for free. I guess they want a piece of the webapp-market but that is not the way to get it.

The service doesn't even allow online editing, so everybody who want to edit something needs iWorks to do it. While with google docs you can export your document to odf/rtf/pdf/doc OR edit it online.

So a worse service for more money! Too bad google doesn't give you an option to buy your privacy + ad-less interface back, the only reason I see for not using there service in an corporation.


Worse service for more money AND from Apple? There's a big troll comment in my head but i don't think the comment system could go that far negative. ;) Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stabbyjones) Comments RE[2]: Paid service? http://osnews.com/thread?342782 http://osnews.com/thread?342782 Maybe it's just my skewed perceptions, but I don't think this is intended to be a competitor to Google Docs, at least not yet. Basically, it's a way to share iWork documents on-line and collaborate, nothing more. Sort of an iWork cloud, if you will. It doesn't seem that on-line editing was even a design goal, nor was it intended to be a web application as google docs is.
That being said, I do think charging for something like that is ridiculous. I really do like a lot of Apple's product line, but some of their business ideas leave me shaking my head. This is one of those, I really don't know how far they're going to get with this, and I can't really see most people or businesses paying for it. But, time and money will tell, I suppose. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments