Translation: Here's another reason why you should give us all your data!
Google Now
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#62How can I opt out? Or do I have to leave Android and buy a Windows Phone to avoid getting my information in that system?
You don't. You have to opt in. I'm running it on my phone now and the first thing it did was ask "Hey. Is it OK if I do all these things?". It wont run without your permission. Unlike Apple, Google is pretty good at asking these things. Edit: Maybe Apple has gotten better. I just remember iTunes wiping my iPhone, iPod and all ID3 tags from my music collection numerous times when I was just supposed to copy/add some f…
iOS 6 is going to be introducing very fine grained control of which apps can access what, not just location - which it's already got, but things like contacts, diary etc.
From what I've seen on Android (I'm pretty new to it as a platform, so I could well have missed something), you do get told what the app wants to access but then only get a binary "allow everything that it's asked for/don't run the app at all" option.
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#63Anyone know the font they're using? That nice, big open one?
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#64battery killer?????
I wonder about that too. Similar apps today are battery drains. But maybe it's using new 4.1 APIs that only fire events when the app really needs it? Since they announced it as part of Jelly Bean, makes me think so.
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#65How do I publish custom cards?
There will be some kind of API i guess, but another thing is Google Now is an app in itself, and i am not an android dev, but an app having developer API does not seem very fitting. For example, gmail can have intents but not an API for other apps to use, i guess.
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#66"...Cards appear throughout the day..." Yay, just what I wanted: yet another software service to interrupt me thoughout the day. Snarkiness aside, I'm sure the information is relevant and good. But if I forget that my favorite team is playing while I'm working on a design, do I really need to be reminded? People are not machines. I do not subscribe to and process an information feed in the same way that an email clie…
I'm not under the impression it constantly notifies you, only that the cards it's showing you when you launch it are shuffled (sorry) depending on what's going on.
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#68How can I opt out? Or do I have to leave Android and buy a Windows Phone to avoid getting my information in that system?
You don't. You have to opt in. I'm running it on my phone now and the first thing it did was ask "Hey. Is it OK if I do all these things?". It wont run without your permission. Unlike Apple, Google is pretty good at asking these things. Edit: Maybe Apple has gotten better. I just remember iTunes wiping my iPhone, iPod and all ID3 tags from my music collection numerous times when I was just supposed to copy/add some f…
Yeah, because Apple is the one that wants to track everything you do; either electronically, or via some stupid looking glasses so they can show you ads and sell all your information 100% of the time.
Google, the privacy company.
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#69There are quite a few privacy concerns about these technologies, and I think that proper legislation is necessary to address them. Most people trust a bank to hold their money, and there is legislation to control financial institutions. Now, people are increasingly trusting their data with data banks, and there needs to be legislation to control how the data is stored securely and not abused.
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