>>>Flexible: the increasing number of LibreOffice users deploying the software on different hardware platforms (for instance, a desktop and a laptop)
Er... speaking of "different platforms". Have you heard of this thing called "mobile"? Apparently it's going to be quite popular soon. Might want to get on board with that!
For those of you who missed the sarcasm:
Way back before Microsoft had even toyed with releasing Word for mobile and Google Docs was a barely usable web app, LibreOffice announced they were working on a mobile version of LibreOffice. Users were excited. It seemed like a real opportunity for LibreOffice to exploit the newly burgeoning mobile apps market and gain bucket-loads of new users. Also, this was all taking place about the time various local governments and authorities were starting to insist on 'open' document formats for their documentation and some were moving away from .doc to .odf.
So LibreOffice really couldn't have had the cards stacked more in their favour if they'd dealt them themselves. Their discussion forums were full of LibreOffice users, urging them to grasp this opportunity and pledging that they'd be willing to pay for a LibreOffice mobile app.
What did LibreOffice do?
They released a completely pointless "me too!" cloud app that was subscription-based and could only store LibreOffice documents and nothing else —which was coupled with an equally useless and crippled 'read-only' viewer. This was while Dropbox, Google Drive and Sky Drive [as was] were all bringing out mobile apps which offered free cloud storage for any type of file.
Fast forward several years and LibreOffice still haven't released a mobile version. In the mean-time Microsoft have brought a pretty impressive version of Office to mobile and Google have improved Google Docs mobile so much that many people use that instead of even bothering with a dedicated office suite.
And now, even at this late stage, when the game is probably lost, but there might just be some slight hope, what do LibreOffice do?...
They excitedly announce they've invented "UI preferences!!!!11" and hired some team of 'creatives' to come up with a torturously contrived acronym and a picture of a bun, to accompany it. All announced in a press release which thinks "a range of platforms" still only means "desktop and laptop".
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Er... speaking of "different platforms". Have you heard of this thing called "mobile"? Apparently it's going to be quite popular soon. Might want to get on board with that!
For those of you who missed the sarcasm:
Way back before Microsoft had even toyed with releasing Word for mobile and Google Docs was a barely usable web app, LibreOffice announced they were working on a mobile version of LibreOffice. Users were excited. It seemed like a real opportunity for LibreOffice to exploit the newly burgeoning mobile apps market and gain bucket-loads of new users. Also, this was all taking place about the time various local governments and authorities were starting to insist on 'open' document formats for their documentation and some were moving away from .doc to .odf.
So LibreOffice really couldn't have had the cards stacked more in their favour if they'd dealt them themselves. Their discussion forums were full of LibreOffice users, urging them to grasp this opportunity and pledging that they'd be willing to pay for a LibreOffice mobile app.
What did LibreOffice do?
They released a completely pointless "me too!" cloud app that was subscription-based and could only store LibreOffice documents and nothing else —which was coupled with an equally useless and crippled 'read-only' viewer. This was while Dropbox, Google Drive and Sky Drive [as was] were all bringing out mobile apps which offered free cloud storage for any type of file.
Fast forward several years and LibreOffice still haven't released a mobile version. In the mean-time Microsoft have brought a pretty impressive version of Office to mobile and Google have improved Google Docs mobile so much that many people use that instead of even bothering with a dedicated office suite.
And now, even at this late stage, when the game is probably lost, but there might just be some slight hope, what do LibreOffice do?...
They excitedly announce they've invented "UI preferences!!!!11" and hired some team of 'creatives' to come up with a torturously contrived acronym and a picture of a bun, to accompany it. All announced in a press release which thinks "a range of platforms" still only means "desktop and laptop".
It would be laughable, it wasn't so sad.