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Originally Posted by Azure
Any specific reason you went with Google Apps instead of Office 365?
We use Office 365 at work, and absolutely love it.
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I wanted to see how the other half lives
In all seriousness, I feel like Google is articulating a more complete, larger vision than any of the other cloud players (MS and Apple) right now. I don't find Google and their data collection creepy, I find it empowering. Google Now in particular has caught my attention in a big, big way - it's closer to how I envision computing should work going forward than anything anyone else is espousing.
Office 365 strikes me as more of the same old (but a great fit for many, don't get me wrong!), and junk like iCloud (Apple has not a clue), and even tools like Dropbox feel primordial compared to where Google is aiming (although I continue to subscribe to Dropbox for now - it's still best of breed for that one piece of the puzzle).
Platform agnosticism might be becoming a bigger deal for me too. I'm not yet using Android anywhere; you can pry my iPad out of my cold dead hands, but Google seems intent on delivering a comprehensive and rich ecosystem on the iOS platform right now, so I'm happy to load the iPad up with their apps.