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Do Google Doc features really impact the community enough warrant a post? Just seems like marketing to me.
by tylfin 8y ago
Do Google Doc features really impact the community enough warrant a post?
Just seems like marketing to me.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoUseful until it’s deprecated. If you need permanence/long term support, use Office and Microsoft’s tooling (instead of Google products).
- DoubleCribble 8y agoThe features of Docs and Word are more of a Venn diagram than a circle. One does not easily substitute for the other.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI don’t think I need to expound on why one shouldn’t rely on Google Docs-specific features for business processes. Will the feature you need last longer than Wave? Or Inbox? Will you get a shutdown notice as bad as that for the Google+ API?
- DoubleCribble 8y agoMaybe? But what's the average life expectancy of a particular workflow? As long as the feature outlives my workflow, I'm a happy camper.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI can’t speak to workflow longevity. My assumption, based on enterprise work experience, is that corporations using Office 365 and MS Flow are going to prefer that workflow over Google Docs (and they’re probably already federated to Azure AD, making access control easy peasy). People want to derisk what they deliver, and want to keep their jobs. Microsoft delivers on that, Google does not. This isn’t about emotion, it’s about pragmatism.
- DoubleCribble 8y agoNo doubt there are enduring legacy effects of enterprise Office use. There's a very long tail there. However, I think Google is approaching this from the End User standpoint. They're making it possible for people with just a little tech skill to start making magical things, no engineer required. The paradigm is shifting as we speak.
- DoubleCribble 8y agoFor those of us who work in Docs on a daily basis, it sure does.
- stronglikedan 8y agoThe cool thing about HN is that, by its very nature, any post that gets voted to the front page is warranted.
- tylfin 8y agoOn the flip-side, it's easier for a large organization like Google to manipulate the post that gets voted to the front page.
- jankeymeulen 8y agoTrue, but why? To gain some Internetpoints?
- oom 8y agoGoogle Docs has approximately 1 billion daily active users. Hacker News has fewer than 1 million monthly active users. Google is a deeply polarizing HN topic, where many of any article's comments reduce to snark about longevity of Google products, or proclamations that anyone using Google services is a fool who doesn't understand privacy. Please tell us more about your theory of Google's astroturf marketing campaign on Hacker News. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-users-and-gets-a-big-update-for-the-enterprise/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/09/google-drive-now-has-800m-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098
- he6s4vyu 8y agoGiven that the mods can alter the rank of a post artificially, and do so probably often, this statement holds no weight.
- stronglikedan 8y agoIt holds more weight than your baseless accusations, but please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.