Google Tops PC World Top Products List

PC World released their top products of 2007 list, and as usual it only covers the first few months of 2007. Still, Google should be quite happy, as it took the #1 spot with Google Apps Premier Edition, with PC World basically saying that Google’s $50/year docs/spreadsheet/calendar/email/IM software being the best product right now. In the entire world.
Conclusions? Draw them.
Google beat out Intel’s latest Core 2 Duo processor, the Nintendo Wii, Verizon’s fiber optic internet service, Blackberry, Apple Mac OS, Apple TV, the Xbox 360, and Paint.net. With the exception of the last one, all of those are expensive products, with millions in research and development and millions in revenue. But yeah, Google’s not-free “good enough” office apps are way better.
I’m not saying Google Apps is bad, far from it. It’s real good. But to say you wouldn’t trade it for half that […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg