Comments on: Microsoft OneNote on Android: nice but late to the party http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/ Tue, 21 May 2013 15:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Buck http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-822627 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:57:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-822627 I’ve never used either. I briefly toyed with EverNote a year or two ago, but the inability to sync with my work PC killed its functionality. I recently discovered OneNote on the PC (recently got Office 2010 installed) just as Microsoft was releasing their Android App. Perfect timing. I’m hooked!

]]> By: Connie http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-813378 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:39:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-813378 And the wait is almost over! March 1 for the Verizon version: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-7.7-LTE-coming-to-Verizon-next-week_id27244

]]> By: EddieW http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-813179 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:09:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-813179 Thanks for this info. I use Onenote on both iPhone and iPad to take notes during meetings or while on-the-go, and find the SkyDrive syncing back to my office and home PCs to be incredible. I previously had a subscription to Evernote, but when my notes and their attachments started disappearing (with the Evernote support team telling me how they took data loss seriously yet were still unable to retrieve my data from a backup), I switched to Onenote and haven’t looked back. I’m anxiously waiting for the Verizon Galaxy Tab 7.7 and will definitely be loading Onenote there as well.

]]> By: Nameless http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-812667 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:19:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-812667 No inking support in the Android version? What a waste.

The HTC Flyer, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, and Samsung Galaxy Note all have active pen digitizers of the sort you’d find in a Tablet PC. They probably won’t be the last Android devices to do so, either. There’s no reason NOT to make use of that…

…unless it’s because they didn’t code it with ICS in mind. That iteration of Android could shake things up with the pen input APIs, which are hopefully hardware-agnostic (so they don’t have to worry about maintaining code for both N-trig on the HTC and Lenovo offerings and Wacom on the Samsung).

As for Evernote, it’s a nice service, but the subscription-based model needed to practically use it puts me off. With OneNote, I own it, no future commitments. Cross-platform support is less of a concern to me since I generally keep my notes on my Tablet PC and have no need to share them.

]]> By: Edgar Raist http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-807522 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:09:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-807522 Late, I’m using projektino app and I’m happy about it.
Greeting
Edgar

]]> By: Seth Krieger http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-807353 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:03:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-807353 Without a search feature I would say that it still has not arrived, just like the web app. What is the point if you can’t search your messagebase?

]]> By: quickgamer88 http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-807329 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:07:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-807329 Reblogged this on quickgamer88.

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-807034 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-807034 Sranzha, you raise a good point about us geeks. ;) I agree with you, but only to a degree. Why? Because more apps have sharing components for collaboration purposes. So it’s less about what platforms I use and more about what platforms my peers, friends and family use. I don’t want to use a tool that can only share to some of my contacts.

A perfect example: my son doesn’t live with me, but with his mom. Together, all three of us collaborated on his choice of classes for his freshman year of high school, which is next year. But we all use different devices and platforms ranging from Windows, OS X, Android, WP and iOS. We did the whole “project” in Evernote and never had to worry about who was using what device. Hope that illustrates why broad cross-platform support is to me and why it will become more important to the non-geeks in the future. :)

]]> By: Tad http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-807017 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:43:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-807017 As a current Evernote free user, I agree that Microsoft is too late to the party. However, looking forward I believe we may see conversion from users looking to go premium. A one-time cost of $5 is better than a monthly subscription.

]]> By: sranzha http://gigaom.com/2012/02/08/microsoft-onenote-on-android-nice-but-late-to-the-party/#comment-807010 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:23:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=482178#comment-807010 Hi,

I use onenote a lot! I would say the cross platform for apps which are not social is not multiple mobile platforms, but cross platform here is, i can use same app on my work desktop, personal mac, table and mobile and everything is synced!

Cross-mobile-platform doesn’t even make sense in this type of apps, as how many people do really change between iOS and android on a weekly basis except for people like you in the review and tech commentary industry?

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