Online / Offline Office

Phil Sim (his blog, Squash, from downunder) has the most perceptive note to-date on the Google + Writely theme.

Phil says that the future of the office suite will not be purely on-line because, frankly, it wouldn't work due to bandwidth & storage limitations. This notion is supported by Google's announcement of GDrive -- our local drives will behave as a cache for the online version hosted by Google.

Q.E.D., Google's office suite will have significant Fat- or Rich-Client componentry; this is what we suppose OpenOffice is doing in their skunk works. For engineers, the trick will be making the experience safe & seamless.