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Finally, You Can Create Spreadsheets On Your iPhone

Source: TechCrunch

Sep 29, 2008

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When Apple’s App Store was first announced, many of us envisioned a fleet of applications that would turn the iPhone into a mobile computing powerhouse - any functionality that Apple neglected to include would be quickly introduced by third party developers. Unfortunately, the store has largely failed to deliver on that potential, as developers have shied away from full-featured, useful apps in favor of flashy novelties that are cheaper to produce and more profitable. There may be a few diamonds in the rough, but you’d never know it - 75% of the top apps list (which is the first thing most people look at) consists of games.

Today sees the launch of an iPhone app that attempts to fulfill the store’s original promise by adding a truly useful feature to the iPhone that many have longed for since its introduction: modifiable spreadsheets. The iPhone has allowed users to view Excel and Numbers files since its launch, but until now users have been unable to create or edit them. The aptly named Spreadsheet application is available for $7.99 here, claiming to be t

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Comments (1)

Digiphile,

Sep 29, 2008

No ability to import from Excel or export to it?

Apple missed an opportunity to recreate the killer app of the PC age on iPhone. Think about a single interface allowing easy drag and drop between cells, popup text input and integrated cut and paste. Optimize for the iPhone's multitouch. Add a layer of MobileMe for it to synchronize with shared spreadsheets, like the social spreadsheets from WikiCalc, and you've created a new class of mobile spreadsheet.

Who's got my application? Apple? Google? Socialtext? MSFT? MIT?