As part of this week's announcements about enhanced login security for Apps and Google Docs soon to be working on iPad and Android devices, Google also revealed some insights into take up of its Apps service.
Google Apps, which offers email, calendar, word processing and spreadsheet tools and website builder, is now used by 3m businesses globally with 30 million users.
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Google chief executive Eric Schmidt gave a little more detail on Apps use at Zeitgeist back in May, saying that 1,000 companies a day are switching to Google Apps, using Google Docs as a convenient, cloud-powered, web-based replacement for Word.
"Almost all come in through email and Google Calendar and start using Google Sites," he said, adding that many of those businesses are very small but that they make a large amount of Google's business. He acknowledged that Google Docs was not adequate for power users of Excel and those "in love with Excel macros" which he described as a "not large but important market that Google won't be in anytime soon".
Meanwhile, editable Google Docs will appear for iPad and Android users in the "next few weeks", the post helpfully points out. Not before time.
