Time will tell, but the team over at Google is doing their darnedest to help empower anyone with the desire (not necessarily the skill) to create their own Android apps.
Their new “App Inventor” is a product that’s been in development for more than a year, and promised to bring Android development capabilities to the masses. Check-out the info they’ve already made available, and watch the video for a quick overview:
Over the years, I’ve managed to migrate all of our our operations to “the cloud,” using web-based applications, as opposed to their desktop elders.
As I’ve written before (and preached to our clients), the benefits are numerous… No more having to maintain hardware and networks, instant sharing and collaboration with team members without needing an infrastructure, and so-forth.
One of the last hurdles (for me) was getting the ease-of-use I wanted, being able to work with what I need to work with, without having everything running as tabs in my browser.
The Google Enterprise blog just announced some new ways to share your docs in Google Apps, which provide for more flexibility.
With more and more client companies using Google Docs sharing to collaborate, this more granular control should come in handy.
I was pleased to read today that the use of Google Apps inside companies of all sizes is really taking off.
The article claims that about 20% of respondents to a study by researcher IDC say Google’s Google offering is widely used in their organization, up from 5.8% a little more than a year and a half ago.
And that has Microsoft’s attention. Read the entire story at USA Today.
