On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/31/13 6:40 PM, kalle hauser wrote: >> Dear AOO Devs, >> >> rob weir did a nice conclusion of the download statistic for AOO 4.0. >> >> 1. Congratulations to the growing interest for AOO and your sucessfull >> release of 4.0 >> >> 2. The statistic shows that windows is the main plattform for AOO. Since >> Apples success with their touchscreen-powered smartphone and tablet, tablets >> with Android and iOS gets more and more important. >> Do you plan a mobile touchscreen-optimized version of AOO 4 in the future to >> be prepared for the shift from PC to mobil plattforms like Android or iOS? >> Whats about an AOO Version running in a webbrowser with cloud-connection (i >> personaly dont like clouds, but they get more and more popular)? I thinks >> its important to move with the changes in the IT-World to survive... >> > > I would say no concrete or detailed plans but we are watching what's > going on and we would support any initiative to start working in this > direction. AOO is based on an older and over year grown codebase and it > is not the easiest task to make this beast ready for the future. Means > it requires some work ... > > But again we are open for anything and if volunteers come up and want to > work on this, we will help where we can ... >
My personal prediction: Google takes QuickOffice (which they acquired a few years ago) and makes it open source, under the Apache License 2.0, and it becomes the default consumer-grade productivity app on Android, but also remains very popular on iOS. -Rob > Juergen > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
