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Re: Google Now

#91

Post by methodin »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #59

"...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…

We've never gotten there so it's an intriguing experiment regardless if you agree with it or not. 12 years ago I imagine most people thought it would be ludicrous that people would be walking around consumed in a mobile device - but that came to fruition just as stuff like this will.

Re: Google Now

#92

Post by mynegation »

bretthopper wrote: post #9

Google has definitely stepped up their UI design with Jellybean. Oddly enough, at Google I/O they showed the Sports card with real MLB teams, and on this page, it's fake teams (likely due to licensing rules). But even worse, is that they didn't notice the line scores are out of alignment: http://www.google.com/landing/now/images/card-sports.png (Top row of Clovers is shifted over).

Clean design, thin font, almost translucent colors, lots of space in between - this is definitely a preparation to and a testbed for the future functionality powering Google Glass

Re: Google Now

#93

Post by nollidge »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #54
degenerate wrote: post #48

How come whenever Google launches something, I only know the who/what, but am never told the when/where/how? Telling me WHEN (if ever) this will be available on my device, WHERE to download it when that happens, and HOW it will integrate into my device/profile would be really nice to read about :(

It's a part of Android 4.1, so the WHEN, WHERE and HOW depend a lot on what phone you have.

Do they say that? The horrible transcription didn't include that (I didn't feel like getting my headphones out for the video).

Re: Google Now

#94

Post by mikeash »

tomp wrote: post #72
pyre wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Names can't be copyrighted, but they can be trademarked. 2. Google is using their name in the branding. E.g. Apple calls the iPhone just the iPhone, not the "Apple iPhone." On the other hand, Google prepends their name to all of their product names (e.g. "Google Play" "Google Now" "Google Plus" "Google Glass"), with Gmail being the only major exception that I can come up with (off the top of my head).

1. Sorry, my bad. English is not my first language. 2. So, you think it wouldn't go after another company calling it's media webstore Play Store or Supercorp Play? Now, I don't really know about Google, but Facebook has shown that it is possible to attack other companies even for using just a part of your (completely generic) trademarked name.

It's possible to attack other companies for essentially anything. That doesn't mean you'll win.

Re: Google Now

#95

Post by onlyup »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #85
brown9-2 wrote: post #57

Confusing that nothing on the page (besides the video) mentions the word "Android" or how you can get Now.

Yes. I just wasted my time looking on the Android market place for something called Google Now, and not finding it.

Same, I searched for it too. Is it an app?

Re: Google Now

#97

Post by courtewing »

What I find most interesting is the potential for an app like this to help shape your habits in such a way that is directly beneficial to Google. We're seeing this more and more with tighter integrations between major google products, but I feel this goes above and beyond what we've traditionally seen from Google in terms of habit-building.

A personal example: I fly a few times a year, and I always check my flight status at the specific airline's website. I haven't really looked into other options because I've held a "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" attitude, and it is a simple enough task. But if I were to use an app like this, suddenly I have a huge added incentive to search for my flight statuses on google.

I don't mean to imply that this is a bad thing. To the contrary, I think it is a smart business decision that adds a lot of value to all of the integrated google products for the user. I just found it interesting when I was trying to decide what the "value" was to google for a product like this.

Re: Google Now

#98

Post by disappointment »

methodin wrote: post #91
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #59

"...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…

We've never gotten there so it's an intriguing experiment regardless if you agree with it or not. 12 years ago I imagine most people thought it would be ludicrous that people would be walking around consumed in a mobile device - but that came to fruition just as stuff like this will.

Believe it or not, we had PDAs back then. And before that, we had pocket TVs.

Re: Google Now

#99

Post by DeanCollinsNYC »

splatzone wrote: post #60
pyre wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Names can't be copyrighted, but they can be trademarked. 2. Google is using their name in the branding. E.g. Apple calls the iPhone just the iPhone, not the "Apple iPhone." On the other hand, Google prepends their name to all of their product names (e.g. "Google Play" "Google Now" "Google Plus" "Google Glass"), with Gmail being the only major exception that I can come up with (off the top of my head).

Feedburner, YouTube, Orkut, Picasa, Blogger? Good points though.

i think you'll find they acquired all of those, having said that....these are descriptive and cant be copywrited without the inclusion of the name Google eg i can call my startup Cognatin Play and have no fear with losing this case.

Re: Google Now

#100

Post by DeanCollinsNYC »

splatzone wrote: post #60
pyre wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Names can't be copyrighted, but they can be trademarked. 2. Google is using their name in the branding. E.g. Apple calls the iPhone just the iPhone, not the "Apple iPhone." On the other hand, Google prepends their name to all of their product names (e.g. "Google Play" "Google Now" "Google Plus" "Google Glass"), with Gmail being the only major exception that I can come up with (off the top of my head).

Feedburner, YouTube, Orkut, Picasa, Blogger? Good points though.

i think you'll find they acquired all of those, having said that....these are descriptive and cant be copywrited without the inclusion of the name Google eg i can call my startup Cognation Play and have no fear with losing this case.
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