Google announced that it will soon be removing Quickoffice app from Google Play Store and Apple App Store in favor of its own Google Apps suite.
Google, the largest internet search and cloud storage company, is finally pulling the plug on Quickoffice after acquiring it in 2012. In a much-expected move, Google announced the free document editing app will soon be removed from Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The announcement comes after Google fully integrated Quickoffice features into its existing apps suite.
Google acquired Quickoffice in 2012 and has been slowly integrating its features into its own Google Drive suite. After saturating Quickoffice, the app's demise was expected. After all Google's engineering director, Alan Warren had said during the startup's acquisition that it would be integrating the app's technology into Google Apps product suite and end support after its integration.
"With the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps, the Quickoffice app will be unpublished from Google Play and the App Store in the coming weeks," Google said on its apps updates page last week. "Existing users with the app can continue to use it, but no features will be added and new users will not be able to install the app."
The Quickoffice suite, which was listed as a free app in September 2013 along with 10GB of free Google Drive storage for two years, allows viewing, editing and creating Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The features have been integrated into Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, to support editing of Microsoft Office documents without importing or converting them.
Google also launched a new standalone Slides app for Android, last week, after it was announced in May alongside the launch of Docs and Sheets apps with offline editing capabilities. The iOS app for Slides is coming soon.
As for Quickoffice, there will be no more updates released to the app and it will eventually disappear from both app stores. Existing users, as Google said, will be able to use the app.
