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Re:Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M by econophys on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:17PM (#12207457)
Preface: My team has been using quip for the past 6 months (and switched from google docs). The value is in the collaboration tools.

Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. It's a really powerful collaboration mechanism especially for remote teams, and cuts down on emails.

It's extremely intuitive for digital natives, but completely turns how one views documents (as static and entirely separate from the comments on them) on it's head. It's less friendly to people who are long time MS Office users.

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Re:Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M by BinaryIdiot on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @02:14AM (#12208075)
> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. It's a really powerful collaboration mechanism especially for remote teams, and cuts down on emails.

Google Docs has all of this (I've used all of it for the past 5-ish years). Is there something specific Quip does better?

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Re:Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M by discardorama on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:28PM (#12207496)
> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere.

I think Google Docs has all of the above.

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Re:Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M by duaneb on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:09AM (#12208648)
Yea, its a clone with chat stuck on.
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Re:Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M by olegious on Monday August 01, 2016 @10:32PM (#12207512)
I don't like Quip. Too slow. Collaborative editing works much better in Google Docs. Can't do proper headings/subheadings or TOC. Just a few of the issues that jumped out at me.
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Re:Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M by pmarreck on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:49PM (#12212779)
Interesting.

Google Docs seems to cover most of this already, and is free.

The fact that a for-pay competitor to Google Docs (adding in in-context chat and everywhere-tagging) is finding success, is very interesting.

I wonder if there's a market for an end to end encrypted collab tool... all I could find was https://www.crypho.com/ which seems fairly basic.

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