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Introducing Proton Sheets (proton.me)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Does if have FILTER, array formulas, spill zones, MAP, data tables, query engines, SQL engine etc etc?

To compete with Word: Easy. To compete with Excel: Very, very difficult (pretty much only Google Sheets have managed).

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    90% of users probably just need a glorified table with SUM

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    In a personal context, agreed. In a business context, I completely disagree. Analysts, finance, operations etc all have much more complex requirements.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It’s not competing with word, it’s competing with Google Sheets.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Google Sheets is competing with Excel. Proton Sheets is competing with Google Sheets. So Proton Sheets is competing with Excel.

    I used Word as a comparative example to say that parts of the office/docs suite are easy to compete with (there’s only so may things a word processor can do), while others (like Google Sheets or Excel, whichever order you prefer) is incredibly difficult to compete with; a formatting error on import of a Word doc is acceptable. An unsupported formula ruins the entire thing.

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