New word processor for iPhones

by on July 7, 2007

Kevin Warnock, founder and CEO of SilverOffice, just dropped by and showed me a really cool app for the iPhone: a word processor. Named gOffice.

Now, why is that cool? Because he showed me a letter that he produced only on the iPhone. I have a video of Kevin showing me the word processor over on my Kyte channel. The video is a little rough, but that’s OK.

Oh, you can try it out on your regular computer too and get a close simulation of what it looks like on the iPhone.

UPDATE: I just did a TwitterGram with him talking about why the iPhoneDevCamp is really special this year.

  • skc
    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.
  • DaveD
    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.
  • LayZ
    "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.
  • thomas
    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?
  • whiteorchid
    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.

    http://whiteorchid.wordpress.com/

    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

    http://sofiawinterborn.wordpress.com/2007/06/14...
  • 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...
  • Vivek
    "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!

    "

    Yes - why reinvent the wheel?

    BTW - a "wordprocessor" on Iphone? C'mon Robert - quit sensationalizing your headlines - you get your no. of hits anyway.
  • seshadri
    "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...

    http://sofiawinterborn.wordpress.com/2007/07/09...
  • Robert
    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.
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    Were you ever in contact with dr ryan from white orchide/living legends?

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    Thanks
    Sean
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