When we heard about the Nokia alliance with Microsoft yesterday, and the duo’s plan to ‘bring’ mobile Office support to Nokia’s Eseries, we immediately reached out to QuickOffice, to see what they thought about the deal. QuickOffice is the Office suite that has shipped on Nokia’s smartphones, including the Eseries, XpressMusic, and even their normal numbered devices, for several years now. Here is the official statement from them.
Having supported the Symbian platform for many years, Quickoffice recognizes the push toward connected mobile services. While our office suite is the world’s overwhelming market share leader on the Symbian platform, it represents only a percentage of our worldwide revenues. Quickoffice is excited about the work we’re doing on other leading and emerging platforms and our direct-to-consumer sales, as evidenced by our number one business app for iPhone and our upcoming announcements with Android. Quickoffice is committed to bringing the best, most innovative products to market, in support of our vision for the mobile connected office.”
- We believe that the Office and Mobile Productivity market is an important space. This announcement highlights the relevance of our Mobile Office and mobile productivity market.
- Quickoffice will continue to support our worldwide user base. We’re shipping on over 100M smartphones and our next version, which includes many of these announced features by Microsoft, will ship on 200M Symbian phones before Microsoft’s product comes out in the marketplace. We have a robust feature roadmap coming on Symbian and our experience on this platform is unmatched.
- Quickoffice is one of the leading Symbian developer, but our sales on Symbian devices does not make up a majority of Quickoffice revenue. Quickoffice has always developed for a diversified portfolio of smartphone OS’ and will continue to innovate and expand our product line. Our ‘Quickoffice for iPhone’ suite is the #1 application in the Business Category on the App Store, and our file management capabilities, which provide remote access to content and documents, highlight a few features in our roadmap.
- Nokia and Microsoft are touching on a suite of services which we refer to as “Connected Services”, and it represents the next generation of our thinking in the Mobile Office market. Quickoffice has some great solutions coming out in this space which will make Office accessible to a broader audience.
So, basically, QuickOffice is saying that, first, they’ll still have a massive number of installs on Symbian devices, but also, that Symbian isn’t necessarily their bread-and-butter sales driver. Also, QuickOffice does offer some benefits that other Office applications (even Office Mobile on Windows Mobile devices) don’t offer, such as the remote file storage.
