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[Michael Spencer <spencers1993@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/15/2013 10:54 AM, Zisu Andrei wrote:
> Is this not a bit too ambitious? Although, open soirce could benefit
> from an actually usable office suite (don't get me started on
> LibreOffice).
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2013, Michael Spencer wrote:
>
>     On 07/15/2013 10:45 AM, Josh Leverette wrote:
>>     I'd be interested in the answer to this as well -- though to be
>>     honest, iOS does have a good office suite, and the ones I've got
>>     on my Android phone are quite usable but nowhere near as good as
>>     iWork. The real problem is that /we/ don't have a good office
>>     suite for phone or tablet yet.
>     In my opinion, an office suite (or at least a text editor) should
>     become one of the core apps. I wonder if that is possible?
>

Yes, it would probably be a big undertaking, but it would boost the "one
OS for every device" idea, since it would allow users to work from
multiple devices. Plus, it would be developed by the community, so it
wouldn't be much different from a bunch of 3rd-party developers working
on their own, except they'd have leaders and maybe designers from
Ubuntu/Canonical.

This brings up another question. Will non-Ubuntu Touch apps run on the
desktop version of the Converged Ubuntu? Will we be able to run apps
like LibreOffice on the desktop still?

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