Look I’m not big on on-line apps like Google Docs or Zoho and I have never hidden that fact but that doesn’t change the fact that they are here to stay and will continue to grow in full time user numbers. To suggest otherwise only proves how stupid you are and have no concept of human nature.
What is even more stupid though is that this discussion going on in the tech blogosphere is being centered around a NPD survey of 600 people. 600 frikken people and Joe Wilcox goes off the deep end declaring that the Web 2.0 office suite is dead and buried.
Joe - you are an idiot and like MG Siegler says in his post what you wrote yesterday is laughable. The market for on-line apps; whether they are office suites or other types of applications will continue to grow because a couple of fundamental reasons. The first one is that they are for the most part free and as it seems to be ingrained in our DNA we get all hot and bothered at the very mention of the word. For free stuff we will endure even half baked or semi-useful software especially if it provides just enough things to let us do what we want.
The second major influence on adoption of on-line apps is our ever growing amount of time spent on the web. whether we are at home or at work or even in between we are all becoming more interconnected through the web and we need to be able to access our information at any time regardless of where we are. Web apps give us this access and control for which we are more than willing to trade our informational soul.
The flip side of this coin is the enterprise market which Don Dodge quite rightly says:
It is fair to say that Google has its head in the clouds. (pun intended) That is a fine place to be if you are a web search company, but that is not where office productivity software is now, or will be anytime in the near future. Google’s arrogance will be its undoing. Their total reliance on internal Google engineers while ignoring customer feedback, and their lack of experience in direct sales and customer support, will not work in the business software world.
Sure I admit that desktop office suites are a bunch of bloated resource hogging pieces of software but then I don’t run a corporation with thousands of employees some of whom may not even have access to the Internet. Maybe for me and millions of people like me on-line apps are the perfect solution but to be an idiot and suggest that that market is dead because of what 600 people said is both irresponsible to your readers and shows how little you know about human nature and its use of the Internet.
600 people … jeez give me a break.
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Conversation Tags: Web 2.0 Office Suites, Microsoft, Google
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