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> All of the online comparisons say they’re about equal, but Sheets doesn’t even have proper tables, much less lambdas or a “get yoga pose” button. I was on th
by jkaptur 4y ago
> All of the online comparisons say they’re about equal, but Sheets doesn’t even have proper tables, much less lambdas or a “get yoga pose” button.
I was on the Google Sheets team from about 2011 to 2018 (opinions are, of course, VERY much my own). I worked in finance before that, so don't worry, I'm aware of Excel's features.
One thing that I found interesting is that, over my time on Sheets, I didn't perceive much change in the volume* of "Sheets is missing critical features" criticism, but I did notice a marked difference in the features that the critics brought up. It's pretty cool that "get yoga pose" now makes the list - it's a long way, for example, from the things Joel Spolsky noted (in 2006) that "you can’t really do well in a web application": https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost....
* In either sense, really.
- vxNsr 4y agoThis blog post by Joel is a wealth of knowledge that does a great job of presciently explaining the last 15 years of Microsoft. He even offers a great reason for why IE stagnated for years: MS was afraid of the web and felt sabotage was the best way to prevent it from flourishing. The only thing they actually accomplished was giving google a browser monopoly.