google mobile update dissapoints
Posted by mobile phone:
I was doing some christmas shopping when I noticed that google rolled out a mobile product update.
Being the software junkie that I am, I immediately started the update. One of the updates that caught my eye was a mobile version of google docs.
Any of my regular readers knopw what a big fan I am of google docs and how many times I have mentioned that my life would be complete if I could work on my documents from my blackberry.
Unfortunaty after the 10-minute update was complete I discovered that the.mobile google docs experience was not nearly as orgasmic as I had worked myself up to imagine.
First of all, spreadsheets are read only. I guess that is forgiveable since writing a spreadsheet control for the blackberry OS would actually take time and (god forbid) cost money. Having said that, making a half-assed version of google docs is unforgivable. I think that they probably somehow intend to make the documents editable, since there are a few edit this page links (nobe of which work) but as far as I could see this is just a silly web-based hack. Something that I could do in 5 minutes with a couplew lines of PHP and the writely APIs.
I could rant forever but I need some coffee.
