Google doesn't care about any of this, otherwise it would have been fixed in 2010. But if you really want to add them their e-mail addresses are:
vicg@google.com
page@google.com
The calendar is going to be replaced by Timely, the next generation version (more feature-rich then the current one) Bigtop will replace the GMail interface.
By the way, I'm adopting https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/ ASAP -- yesterday, if it were possible. I was just contemplating writing my own C++/jni bridge but I'll take what already works, especially if it's being battle-tested by Google. :)
Edit: And with bugs like https://code.google.com/p/j2objc/issues/detail?id=224 I'm considering changing my mind. My Java code isn't that great either, and a few classes with JNI might go a long way compared to hacking together ObjC from Java code. The hard part that neither directly addresses is how to integrate Gradle-powered flavours and build types with Xcode/iOS targets and simple macro keywords. Sharing language files, string/config values and some assets... all seem project-specific at this point and not very well generalized.
Ah yes, fun when your CEO's email address is the same as the name of a product. I worked on +Pages, and we'd constantly be adding +page@google.com to discussions in Google Docs by mistake. ^_^
Modern clusters use a new fabric type called Jupiter, built with the Trident+ chips made by Broadcom, that can grow up to ten times bigger then the old Watchtower clusters (up to 150k servers per fabric)
Old racks have been replaced by the Ikea enclosures that provide DC at the rack level.
The new machines are also really powerful in terms of cpu power and I/O (flash storage, 20Gbit network) and are significantly faster then the previous generation. The public pictures presented in the past are of really old designs that are not longer in service.
Because web? Can I open my LibreOffice documents from a new machine without even installing an app?
Obviously there are reasons to use LibreOffice, like you said. But don't try to pretend there's no reason to use Google's office suite over LibreOffice.
Neato. Does it lock or allow concurrent simultaneous editing? Does OwnCloud integrate LibreOffice yet? A one-stop locally-hosted OSS Google Drive replacement would be nifty.
For me: collaboration. For personal stuff, I can create small sheets and share with family. They will be updates instantly.
For work: we use google spreadsheet for a lot of different status reporting. Allowing multiple people to edit it at once (and view all the changes immediately) can be really nice for certain use cases.
It is convenient. But I am surprised so many people are willing to put their business's data into a spreadsheet where they can't even get the native files. If this takes off it's going to be lock in 100x worse than Excel ever was.
When documents are converted formats features, formatting etc will be lost. If you export everything as CSV you loose all your formulas etc. xlsx and ods are better, but not perfect.
If you could export all your documents in the native format and import them into LibreOffice you'd still lose features, but as LibreOffice improved it's import you'd lose less.
With convert at export data is permanently lost. With convert at import, no data lost permanently lost, it just may not be currently available.
Also if you could backup in native format you could import into a google account if your first account is blocked/lost, instead you have to go through the import/export conversion twice.
Also, with Excel, once you have a computer running Windows / Excel, you can't lose data if a feature is changed / dropped. Just don't upgrade. With Google Docs, you have no choice to upgrade to the latest version. It may not even be a dropped feature, you spreadsheets may accidentally rely on a buggy feature, and when it's fixed your spreadsheets behave differently with no warning.
vicg@google.com page@google.com
The calendar is going to be replaced by Timely, the next generation version (more feature-rich then the current one) Bigtop will replace the GMail interface.