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Although I have QuickOffice for my iPad, I uninstalled it and use iWork, DocsToGo and Office2HD. With Google's acquisition, this further reinforces my decision to not use it. I have not appreciated Google's sneakiness, dating back to the weeks before Steve Jobs (I think) had Eric Schmidt removed from Apple's Board, to their so-called privacy misstep. In fact, I use Bing, not Google for search!

"Google has acquired Quickoffice, which makes QuickOffice Pro HD one of the leading iPad office suites. At the very least, the acquisition will give iPad users a compelling alternative to iWork and other iOS suites."

If it's one of the leading iPad office suites, it sounds like it's already a compelling alternative to iWork and others. If that weren't the case, why would the acquisition make it so? Wouldn't it depend heavily on what Google does with the product? I've seen lots of compelling products acquired and then functionally destroyed by meddling from the new owner.

Has anyone considered, this may just part of their efforts to build an independent platform phone themselves, keep android to themselves, tell all the licensees to go **** themselves?

Think about it, if all the phone manufactures had to make their own OS, there would be chaos, and confusion no other platform has enough synergy to integrate systems, into an ecosystem that could compete. While this suite could be a small part of such essential apps for such an effort.

On the other hand, they may be just like Microsoft, and if you can't engineer the software you need yourself, just acquire the company. And is being used as the author suggests, to support Google Drive. Nonetheless, who did we use for search engines before google again? LOL

Another good app that will turn to crap. hasn't it become obvious to any one that Google does not do software very well? They are now reacting to everything everyone else does. All Apple needs to do is get something that atleast functions like DropBox and they have it set.

I use iWorks on all devices, but I can't really get it to my Macs effectively. Its a bit of work to so the least. Even with that I don't consider using Google Docs or Drive or what ever they will call it tomorrow.

ridddder, on 06 June 2012 - 03:33 AM, said:

Yahoo, AskJeeves, WebCrawler. Before WebCrawler there wasn't enough web to justify search engines.

bio9, on 06 June 2012 - 04:00 AM, said:

Awesome idea. They could call it "iDisk" or something like that.

bastion, on 06 June 2012 - 04:22 AM, said:

Alta Vista?

FritiofSchiller, on 06 June 2012 - 04:44 AM, said:

I only ever used them for quick, crude language translation.

bastion, on 06 June 2012 - 04:22 AM, said:

AltaVista...

ridddder, on 06 June 2012 - 03:33 AM, said:

I'd agree with the latter. After Google bought Motorola Mobility there was a probe into their business to make sure they weren't shutting out other Android manufacturers. I don't doubt it's crossed their minds but at this point they're just looking to acquire needed software and suites in Android as a whole. People aren't trusting Google and QuickOffice is not Skype; people will continue to use Skype no matter who owns it while this acquisition could hurt the office suite.

Quickoffice hd has stopped working. No one will answer questions. Is this acquisition by Google why? When will it work again? I need my documents.