[sahaskatta]

After Apple began offering its office suite for free with all new iOS devices, Google's decision makes sense. However I now have both Google Drive and Quickoffice on my Android smart phone and tablet. These two products overlap a bit too much. They really ought to be a single app.

[stevewillows]

With Keep involved, I now have three ways to make a grocery list.

[JulianMorrison]

And I am sure they will. "Works offline" has been a missing feature in Drive for ages.

[josteink]

The offline support which was added recently-ish in Drive has worked for me when I needed it, but I must admit I haven't been a very heavy user.

Anything in particular I'm missing?

[devx]

If you press the Google Drive button in QuickOffice, it will basically show you what you have in Google Drive, just like the Google Drive app. But yeah, not sure why they're keeping the Drive app around then.

[snogglethorpe]

Er, well, Google Drive is ... storage.

I don't think of it as an "office app" at all, and it would frankly kind of bizarre to have to use QuickOffice to get at the various tar files, html files, image files, etc, that I've put into G.D....

If anything they should really just share components, with Google Drive invoking Q.O. document editors as appropriate, and maybe a Q.O. app remaining as a thin "office-oriented" frontend (whatever that means).

[Blara]

To edit old g-docs files, it's not possible with quickoffice yet (I assume they will switch to one app that can edit all formats instead)