I share your concerns. For now. But we “gotta stop living in the past man”. ;) It won’t be too long before Internet speed and connection problems will become non-issues and security will be close to airtight (at least in developed nations). Remember the first days of e-commerce? People were scared, hesitant and untrusting. Today most of us don’t think twice when placing an online order. The point is, if it makes sense from the service provider’s point of view to move to web-based tools and the benefits are passed on to consumers, it may very well become the natural way to do things, and Google and other providers maybe very well be ahead of the curve in that sense.

I agree with this. Considering my company to be virtual, internet is required regardless. Whether VPN, or through some other means of accessing the remote server, I’m still dependent on an internet connection. A redundant internet connection is definitely called for in remote document/data/etc. storage.

Isn’t it fair to assume that Google is content right now being there ahead of the rest of em? Just testing things out and slowly building it’s user base. We’re hearing about the upcoming Windows 7 and “cloud computing” whereby their will be a shift, or at least an attempt to move from desktop applications to apps/services that reside online. So “just a blip” right now, sure. Because most of us are not ready yet for this ‘bold new era’ of computing. But still a blip ahead of the curve.

Also, we cannot share “Directories” inside the Google Docs framework. This is a major drawback… meaning we would have to manually share every single document. Can you say “pain in the butt?”

Yes it is handy for a quick and dirty document, but it’s formatting capacity is terrible!

Google has to market its doc suite more aggressively, maybe through mobile apps.