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I am not sure that online collaboration is such a killer feature. Most of the time I would take a good offline office app over the application that requires an

by ptero 4y ago

I am not sure that online collaboration is such a killer feature. Most of the time I would take a good offline office app over the application that requires an internet connection, stores my data in the cloud and forces its design choices, from the UI to the security, down my throat "because of the way cloud apps work". My 2c.

LordDragonfang 4y ago
This is probably a plurality opinion on Hacker News, which means it in no way represents the opinion of the average user or business professional. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=microsoft+word%2Copenoffice%2Clibreoffice%2Cgoogle+docs&year_start=1995&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=microsoft+word... Note that 2010 is the year that MS first started adding cloud-based collaborative tools to MS word, reducing the downward trend.