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The marketplace is Firefox OS apps. Those are web apps, although Airborn OS also contains a fair amount of Firefox OS-specific code to be able to run them.

Yeah, spreadsheets is probably the biggest missing thing. There's EtherCalc, which I could port, but I don't think it really qualifies as "good" at the moment (the UI is especially bad). Building something from scratch seems like too much work for one person. If anyone wants to help, I'd be glad to hear it :)

The default file format is HTML, so you can export as that, and ODT is also supported, so you upload and edit (and download) ODTs.

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RIP Firefox OS. :/ It might be a little challenging to base on a platform with not a lot of future support.

I use EtherCalc as my primary spreadsheet editor, and I can definitely agree it's UI is not it's strongest feature, though, it's way better than having nothing. I definitely noticed how clean FireText looks and feels compared to Etherpad, which is my main text editor.

Regarding export/import, I think the biggest thing (and Sandstorm doesn't do this well either currently) is an easy way to do that in bulk. For example, I'd want to export all of my documents in one batch, so it's something I can quickly do regularly as a backup. And for import, I'd want to see something someday like where I log into an OAuth for Google Drive and it auto-imports all my crud. Consider the import flow for most email services: You log into your old provider, and it uses IMAP to pull all your old mail in. One and done.

That's not to suggest I think this is a quick or easy thing to implement, just food for thought.

> RIP Firefox OS. :/ It might be a little challenging to base on a platform with not a lot of future support.

Yeah, it would've been nice if more apps for Firefox OS had been built, but it's also just web apps, and those are alive and kicking. For example, the Strut presentation editor is a web app which I ported with very little effort.

> I'd want to see something someday like where I log into an OAuth for Google Drive and it auto-imports all my crud.

Good idea, thanks. It seems Google Drive has an API with which you can export documents to HTML, so it should be possible to build.

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