{"id":1652,"date":"2007-08-21T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/21\/zoho-offline-is-being-first-enough\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T15:15:52","slug":"zoho-offline-is-being-first-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/08\/21\/zoho-offline-is-being-first-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoho offline: Is being first enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Mike Arrington points out at TechCrunch<\/a>, Zoho has launched offline support for its Zoho Writer application (although it’s read-only for now) using Google Gears — which is more than a little ironic, considering Google still hasn’t offered the same functionality for Google Docs. <\/p>\n

But while that irony makes for a funny post, does it really amount to anything from a competitive point of view? I’m not so sure it does. Implementing Gears support for Google Docs would probably take about half an hour of programming time — and in all likelihood requires little more than a piece of script to be turned on. <\/p>\n

There’s no question that having offline support is a key feature, and Zoho should be congratulated for offering it. But Is being first enough to give it any kind of compelling advantage over Google Docs? Unlikely. <\/p>\n

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As Mike Arrington points out at TechCrunch, Zoho has launched offline support for its Zoho Writer application (although it’s read-only for now) using Google Gears — which is more than a little ironic, considering Google still hasn’t offered the same functionality for Google Docs. But while that irony makes for a funny post, does it … <\/p>\n

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