Re:The man behind Google Docs is now trying to reinvent the ...
by gcb0 on Saturday February 09, 2013 @03:36PM
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non sense! the box app is perfect. more than perfect if you have a rooted android.
treat files as files. not as things that must be opened by a program (or... apps).
now they are making their app bloated and useless.
Their previous approach, to have a data api and recommend apps "to who may need" to edit files in place or something, was the right thing to do.
now they will have a bloated app, that will be crushed in functionality by google drive (gdocs) when they could be the king of sane file management in the cloud while also fostering innovation of new editors, heck there was a guy in xpda forums trying to hook his image editor to box.net. that will probably go south now.
treat files as files. not as things that must be opened by a program (or... apps).
now they are making their app bloated and useless.
Their previous approach, to have a data api and recommend apps "to who may need" to edit files in place or something, was the right thing to do.
now they will have a bloated app, that will be crushed in functionality by google drive (gdocs) when they could be the king of sane file management in the cloud while also fostering innovation of new editors, heck there was a guy in xpda forums trying to hook his image editor to box.net. that will probably go south now.