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Google falls behind the curve in collaboration

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Google's Web-based collaboration suite feels increasingly at odds with modern Web collaboration.

Exhibit A: Page breaks in Google Docs. You can't get rid of them. Yes, you can trawl through forums and find an obscure workaround based on a browser extension. But there's no built-in off switch. Like a PDF file, a Google Doc yearns to be printed on 8.5-by-11 paper, although that is unlikely ever to happen.

Exhibit B: Images in Google Drive. One of the Slack integrations I've built reports stats for our service by pushing charts to Google Drive and posting messages with links to those charts into a Slack channel. Following those links often isn't frictionless, though; there always seems to be another permissions hoop to jump through.

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