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For 99% of business documents, Google Docs works just fine. Your needs are different, and that is cool - but it does not relegate web apps to "toy" status.

• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  My needs are pretty standard. I run an NGO and have some amount of paperwork and data tracking to do in a word processor and spreadsheet application. Due to the collaboration requirements, we're stuck with Google cloud suite (the choice was made back when there were zero reasonable cloud-enabled alternatives). Google's office suite is theoretically capable of doing most of the things I need[0], but the omnipresent lag when you try to work with a bigger document or (more often) several documents at once is very annoying and slows things down. Half a second here, five seconds there, and it all adds up to significant frustration. There's a significant difference between "theoretically X can be done with it" and "it is useful for doing X". You can drive nails with a plastic hammer after all (and most people don't even need the "additional" feature of pulling them out). [0] - which is partly because I reduce expectations of what I can do. Think of it as generalized Blub paradox - you think in terms of the tools you use. Get a better tool, and suddenly you can do more, do it better and do it faster.