It’s a rollicking time for mobile office app users. In the earliest days of the iPad, just two years ago, little more than Pages was on the tablets to allow for document creation. Today there’s not only a way to create using familiar Microsoft tools, but a private cloud network built to ride inside of long-time vendor Quickoffice apps.
Quickoffice’s Connect is a new multi-device, cross-platform mobile productivity app+service that the vendor says “provides seamless document access, editing, saving and sharing experience across all devices and platforms, whether offline or online.” For example, a user with an iPad, an iPhone for personal use, and a Windows PC — as well as a Dropbox account — can leverage Connect for document needs.
Because the service operates from inside the newest Quickoffice HD app, it lets you search across mobile devices, computers, and multiple cloud storage depots for documents. Quickoffice says Connect provides “fluid mobile productivity and collaboration experience across platforms.”
This is an important advantage in the new, bountiful world of mobile document creation. Apple tried this with iWork.com, but recently cut off that beta service that could sync documents built on iPads with desktop workstations. It’s crazy to think that the omnipresent Microsoft Office will now run on iPads, using the brand-new free app CloudOn. But nobody knows how CloudOn is going to survive for free. Quickoffice has set up Connect with a way to pay — very important to surviving as a reliable document resource.
In mobile computing, Quickoffice says, “less is frequently more. It’s a snacker kind of experience, not a full meal.” You can drive Microsoft Office on an iPad, yes — but it doesn’t take long to realize how slowly that responds. And a lack of response time on a touch interface is pretty deadly. Read the rest of this entry »









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