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The competition for Dropbox will be fierce I expect. I love how easy it is to work with and that it works on Windows, OS X and Linux but it lacks proper in-docu
by dlib 17y ago
The competition for Dropbox will be fierce I expect. I love how easy it is to work with and that it works on Windows, OS X and Linux but it lacks proper in-document search on the web interface and no editing capabilities. Also, Google Docs has an excellent PDF viewer. Nonetheless, great app.
- netcan 17y agoI would love to see Dropbox and Google Docs work well together. Overall, I don't want to change my habits to much. That's why I like dropbox. I want to keep using the office programs that I've been using up till now, save them normally, access them normally via the OS file system. The web access is great but marginal, for me. It would be a lot better if the default experience was that clicking a spreadsheet or powerpoint opened it in Google Docs (or similar) rather then downloading it. A web experience on the web and a desktop experience on the desktop. I think the problem with things like Google Docs (or Zoho, for example) is that they are trying to get you off the desktop. MS wants to keep you on the Desktop. Google might not be highly motivated to sync your spreedsheet to your PC for easy access via excel. Dropbox might pull off a serious coup if they became the platform agnostic glue. Log in to Zoho, all your dropbox files are available to you. You edit them, they are still available to you via open office, Google Docs, MS Office, whatever. Google, I suspect, might want the filesystem to be with them though.