Office 365 vs Google apps.

[RavenSword]

So, as a whole, which do you believe is better on Mac and iOS? Office 365 you get word, excel, and PowerPoint for use not only on your Mac (or PC) but also access to the iPad apps. You also get access to outlook for mail, calendar, and contacts, 1TB of one drive storage, and unless I'm mistaken free Skype minutes. It'll cost you 79.99 q year or 99.99 a year, depending which plan you go with.

With google apps you get google docs, sheets, and slides, which are not as powerful or fully featured as their office equivalents, but still good for average users probably. You also get hangouts and google drive with 15gbs free, or you can pay more for up to 1TB of storage for 9.99 a month for the 1tb option. So equivalent price to the 1TB you get of one drive with office 365 if you go with the premium plan. And of course access to gmail and google calendar/contacts. And all of that is free of charge, however your paying for ITT with the user data. Which is a iffy situation to some.

So, what's the best option for Mac/iOS users? Googles offering looks great on paper, but how much is the privacy thing a issue. And office 365, is well priced for what you get, bit how well are the Mac and iOS implementations of these products compared to googles?

What do you think?

 

[Just_Me_D]

It depends on the user's needs. Also, you're not taking into consideration those who prefer the offerings of Apple, i.e., Pages, Numbers, Keynotes (available on iOS, OS X and anyone with an iCloud account no matter what platform you use), iCloud Drive, iMessage, FaceTime, etcetera. and those who use a combination Apple, Microsoft and Google products. Again, it all depends on the needs of the user, in my opinion...

 

[RavenSword]

It depends on the user's needs. Also, you're not taking into consideration those who prefer the offerings of Apple, i.e., Pages, Numbers, Keynotes (available on iOS, OS X and anyone with an iCloud account no matter what platform you use), iCloud Drive, iMessage, FaceTime, etcetera. and those who use a combination Apple, Microsoft and Google products. Again, it all depends on the needs of the user, in my opinion...

That's very true. I'm very interested to see how iCloud drive turns out and if it acts the same as Dropbox. I know I personally use gmail, google calendar, google contacts, one note, one drive, and google drive for stuff. Was thinking of subscribing to 365 to get the 1tb of onedrive space and access to office. But not sure I need all that or not.

 

[acerace113]

I just use Office mobile for iPhone:

It's free for me plus I have 25 GB of free onedrive storage.

 

[RavenSword]

I just use Office mobile for iPhone:
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It's free for me plus I have 25 GB of free onedrive storage.

Do you subscribe to office 365?

 

[acerace113]

Do you subscribe to office 365?

No

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

No

Can you create documents?


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[acerace113]

Can you create documents?


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Yes, and it saves my documents to onedrive.

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

Yes, and it saves my documents to onedrive.

There isn't a version for the iPad though.


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[acerace113]

There isn't a version for the iPad though.


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I don't have an iPad to check.

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

It doesn't. It just comes with the iPhone. But I did see that they have dropped the price for the full office suite to $69.99. I think that I'm going to jump all over this.


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[RavenSword]

It doesn't. It just comes with the iPhone. But I did see that they have dropped the price for the full office suite to $69.99. I think that I'm going to jump all over this.


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If you buy it the card through amazon, they have the 365 home premium for 64.99. This gives you access to 5 PC/Mac downloads , rather than the two that comes with the personal plan.

 

[zerog46]

There is a onedrive app for the iPad.

 

[zerog46]

I'm loving office for Mac and my iPad. I have one drive on all my devices and gave 1TB of cloud space with it.

 

[WeAreAllUnique]

There is a onedrive app for the iPad.

The OneDrive app doesn't allow you to create documents.


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[Speedygi]

Still prefer Office 365 and its integration with OneDrive.

 

[zerog46]

The OneDrive app doesn't allow you to create documents.


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Correct its just for storage. You get office when you purchase 365 and create them in that and store on one drive.

 

[ajl]

I'm not a big fan of the Office apps on mobile.

 

[RavenSword]

It's interesting that people now think of google as some sort of tech boogeyman. Worrying that there going to steal there data and souls and pimp them out to advertisers. I just don't get it. It's not like there using your actual name and personal info. They use anonymous algorithm stuff as far as I know .

 

[zerog46]

Still prefer Office 365 and its integration with OneDrive.

I'm loving the way iOS and one drive is working for me. Especially with the 365 plan. Everyone I'm my family gets office and 1TB of cloud storage.