New word processor for iPhones

I went in open minded, but that really is a sad excuse for an online word processor.

Until we have function like copy and paste… There isn’t much point.

I disagree. A weak app is not necessarily a sad one.

Oh yeah – and talk about a name trying to cash in on the big names.

Robert, turn off your iPhone for a week. Ignore the whines your son will make during that week too.

Get some perspective. This is advice from an Apple fan and an AAPL stock holder.

Consider it. Please.

“gOffice”

Show of hands…who thinks a couple of tech companies might take issue with that name?

I thought it works well, but they need to work on their file sizes. I typed “testing this new word processor” and it turned into a 500 KB file in my inbox.

A textbox? I opened the “demo” on my computer and all it shows is a textbox? That’s now called a word processor? I wonder how long they worked on that! If only I had come up with this idea.

Um, the word processor I saw was just a text box, without formatting. That isn’t really a word processor… More like… a Piece Of Crap!!!

Completely useless!

ioannusdeverani: did you watch the video? It might look like a text box, but it does a little more than that.

It’s early and developers don’t have a real UI to play with. Plus, this stuff needs to work on a small screen. Lots of limitations. What, did you expect Microsoft Word to be on there? Heheh!

DaveD: you might just want to go read Digg for a week. Oh, I forgot there’s a ton of iPhone stuff there too. Sorry, you’ll just have to deal for a few more days. Eventually something else will come out that’ll be interesting to talk about. Or, maybe I’ll notice there’s a ton of new Facebook apps to talk about. Want a ninja?

I can not find how to contact you, so i would ask you to email me at dr.flynn.r@gmail.com

I would like to ask you a few questions if possible, for a project.

I do a lot of humanitarian work, using a pro profit to fund them, allowing me to not be a charity.

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Ryan

hi there again, what do you think about this that people are doing

“Let`s have sex and make up”

isnt`t that kind of strange i a way? or am I wrong

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The app looks very early in the process. I’d like to see it in a couple of weeks when it’s a little more mature and developed. Right now I don’t think it’d use it.

Robert,

Wow, add cut/copy/paste and it’s almost as complete as notepad on Windows 1.03 from 1985 – not WordPad – just Notepad.

Let’s be reasonable. This is at best – and even that’s stretching it – a text editor. To call it a word processor is flat out misuse of the term. Just because it’s on the “Jesus Phone” doesn’t mean lowering standards and redefining English that much. I mean, let’s be reasonable, the “Leave a comment” editor on this blog has more functionality than that “word processor”.

Mike

Who writes “letters”? At the airport the other day, I noticed that old people spend their laptop time in Word, doing who knows what. Younger people spend it online.

Word processing is a tedious activity no matter how you present it. I expect it to wane over the next few years as people have much less need to write “letters”.

there are some ready application sample at http://www.iphonebeep.com/software/reviews/zoho_online_office_suite.html

“It’s early and developers don’t have a real UI to play with. Plus, this stuff needs to work on a small screen. Lots of limitations. What, did you expect Microsoft Word to be on there? Heheh!

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Yes – why reinvent the wheel?

BTW – a “wordprocessor” on Iphone? C’mon Robert – quit sensationalizing your headlines – you get your no. of hits anyway.

“you might just want to go read Digg for a week. Oh, I forgot there’s a ton of iPhone stuff there too”

Actually No. Currently in the technnology section, Digg has just 2 artciles about iPhone. Same in Techmeme (one of them is yours)

I agree. The text messaging facility on my new phone has more functionality than this. Is it made by a friend of yours?

GeekBoy: I didn’t even know Kevin before yesterday.

It’s just that the lack of a real SDK is keeping better apps from being developed. This one took him three weeks to build and he already had pieces of it pre-built.

You’ve got to frkn kiddn me!
This is so sad, much more sad then the sad sad tale of chicken foot.

It’s nice to see gOffice making the comeback on iPhone, and I wish them success with the first *text editor* for iPhone.  Kevin is a nice guy, I gave him my special award for the most honest statement at the Office 2.0 conference.

He is incorrect about listing the “Big Three” online office companies as public: Zoho (and their parent company, Adventnet) is privately held. Btw, they released the iZoho for iPhone on iDay

(disclaimer: I’m an advisor to Zoho)

Sorry, I wasn’t clear on this in the previous comment: iZoho is a word processor + spreadhseet + presentation combo for the iPhone.

@4 LayZ: as for the gOffice name, amazingly, Kevin offered the name to Google for free, but they did not care ….

The world is falling apart, what do we do…

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I think gOffice is a waste of time. The notes App. on the iPhone is just as useful. At least on the notes button, you don’t need to connect to the internet.

Hi

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Thanks
Sean