For me online word processing etc is a no no. Just not reliable or stable enough. What if I want to work on a computer without internet access?

Also its much more likely to crash and burn that MS Office or Open Office when running on the machine itself.

"...especially when Google Apps still, occasionally, has a nasty habit of plummeting ingloriously back to earth with a thud."

FUD, surely?

I kid. I've used Google docs as a handy-dandy tool for collaboration with clients across many domains; it's got its purposes and for some it's ideal. It still seems a mite too flaky to utterly replace local WP, though.