Google to Finally Do Away with QuickOffice in Favor of Docs, Sheets, and Slides

Approximately two years ago, Google acquired Quickoffice, Inc. Then about nine months ago, the QuickOffice suite was re-released as a free app in the Google Play Store. At the time, many were quick to criticize the redundancy of having editing capabilities in Google Drive, as well as a standalone office suite. Complicating matters further, Google also decided to release standalone Docs and Sheets apps at the end of April. But two days after the release of Docs and Sheets, Google Drive 1.3 removed its built-in editing capabilities in favor of the new standalone apps.

Now that we also have the standalone presentation editor Slides, it’s natural to assume that Google would aim to remove the last remaining redundancy: the QuickOffice app itself. As stated on the Google Apps blog, QuickOffice will be removed from Google Play and the iOS App Store in the coming weeks:

With the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps, the Quickoffice app will be unpublished from Google Play and the App Store in the coming weeks. Existing users with the app can continue to use it, but no features will be added and new users will not be able to install the app.

With the removal of QuickOffice, hopefully Google will be better able to focus its efforts on making Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive as smooth and capable as possible. Are you a QuickOffice user? If so, what are your thoughts?

[Source: Google Apps Blog | Via AndroidPolice]

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