Yeah, Docs and Sheets just being … free … is consumer-friendly but it’s hard to see how anyone else could possibly do it free of charge without a monopoly in some other area.
Personally I don’t think either are great products except for multi-user collaboration, which, admittedly, is the whole reason many people depend on these apps. Google solved a devilshly tricky problem and just gives it away.
John Gruber /
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