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Quickoffice for iPhone Does File Attachments

Monday, July 20, 2009

For everything that’s amazing about the iPhone, there are still some things about it that are amazingly limited. One example: The sandboxing of third-party apps has meant that there’s been no way to edit documents that folks send to you as e-mail file attachments. Today, Quickoffice released an update to its $12.99 iPhone office suite–the only [...]

Still Needed for the iPhone: A Great Office Suite

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

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A year into the era of third-party iPhone software, there may be 50,000 applications for Apple’s phone. But nobody needs that many, of course–hey, they’d be a tight squeeze even if you’ve got a 32GB iPhone 3G S. What you want are…the applications you want. One of the ones I want is a solid, simple [...]

Quickoffice and the Paradox of the iPhone Platform

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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Paradoxical but true: The iPhone is both the most highly evolved mobile platform ever and one that’s remarkably rudimentary in some major ways. What’s good about it is so good that I sometimes forget that. But every time I do, something happens to remind me of the things it still can’t do, and of how [...]