Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set...
by hintymad on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:18PM
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> Their office suite is pretty impressive
Speaking of usability, Quip is much better in my experience. Office 365 is more feature rich. If anything, I think GSuite is falling behind. A few killer features that GDocs should've had since years ago:
- A link to any line. Quip has it, yet in gdoc I have to create a bookmark first.
- Any table is a spreadsheet. I mean, isn't it obvious? Who says one never needs to calculate anything in a table, or never needs to format anything in a spreadsheet cell?
- Embed formula anywhere and refer the result anywhere. Dah! So convenient for technical docs, yet gdocs has shit.
- Latex support. I'm sorry, but gdoc's equation is both ugly and crippled.
- Embed any file. I mean, really, this is year 3202 and I still have to upload a file to gdrive, find its link, and paste the link back to my doc?
Google used to an avantgarde in product design. What happened?
Speaking of usability, Quip is much better in my experience. Office 365 is more feature rich. If anything, I think GSuite is falling behind. A few killer features that GDocs should've had since years ago:
- A link to any line. Quip has it, yet in gdoc I have to create a bookmark first.
- Any table is a spreadsheet. I mean, isn't it obvious? Who says one never needs to calculate anything in a table, or never needs to format anything in a spreadsheet cell?
- Embed formula anywhere and refer the result anywhere. Dah! So convenient for technical docs, yet gdocs has shit.
- Latex support. I'm sorry, but gdoc's equation is both ugly and crippled.
- Embed any file. I mean, really, this is year 3202 and I still have to upload a file to gdrive, find its link, and paste the link back to my doc?
Google used to an avantgarde in product design. What happened?