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Re: Google Now

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: Google Now

#123

Post by napoleoncomplex »

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…

As far as I see, you have complete control of what type of cards you see as well as the extent of the notifications. Being customizable to that degree, I don't see how anyone could be overloaded with information they don't want.

As you said you do not care about when your team is playing or rather if you care, you will mark it down some other way and do not need Google's help with it so you most likely won't have that card "turned on".

If you care, but don't want to be interrupted by notifications specifically, then you'll either turn off notifications for that card, or if possible (the following is pure assumption based on the Jelly Bean notification priority options), you would set that specific card's notification priority to minimum, meaning it does not show up in your status bar and doesn't fire off any sound/vibration signals, but if you pull down on the status bar (meaning you are looking for information) it's there at the bottom of your notifications, completely unobtrusive.

Either way, it's the user's choice.

Re: Google Now

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Post by outworlder »

adunk wrote: post #101
methodin wrote: post #36

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It was on by default for me and I was really confused for a short period of time wondering what the heck they were trying to tell me as part of the video. It was hilarious, however.

I had the same experience. But the subtitles really were something extra, would definitely recommend for a laugh.

Thanks for your tip. The subtitles are usually fairly accurate, but there's something messing with them on this video, could be the music or the narrator.

Usually speech recognition errors are fairly routine, but in this case they are hilarious. Oh, and the word 'Android' was not recognized.

Re: Google Now

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Post by icco »

brown9-2 wrote: post #57

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

It's built into the Android OS, as far as I can tell.

Re: Google Now

#127

Post by abrahamsen »

marcusf wrote: post #105
disappointment wrote: post #98

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

But they were never mass market in the same way. Walk on to the tube today and 70% will have their noses buried in an iPhone (or less often, a 'droid). That wasn't the case with either PDA's or pocket TV's. Possibly with walkmans/iPods.

SMS among kids would also qualify, at least in Europe (took off later in the US for some reason).

Re: Google Now

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Post by personlurking »

hackinthebochs wrote: post #111
Artistry121 wrote: post #53

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Google doesn't "read" your emails. The information completely secured from human eyes. A computer looks for words and phrases and tries to match ads to email content. Sometimes this is helpful, but the advertisers only receive anonymous data and no humans at Google or anywhere else read your data. Source: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

>Google doesn't "read" your emails. For now. But what happens when data mining technology increases to the point where they can deduce real facts about you as a person from all this data they're collecting. I think this is what people mean when they say Google "reads" your email.

"But what happens when data mining technology increases to the point where they can deduce real facts about you as a person from all this data they're collecting."

Like that NYT article "How Companies Learn Your Secrets" on buying habits (at Target) of pregnant teens.

Re: Google Now

#129

Post by sirclueless »

papercrane wrote: post #107
CrazedGeek wrote: post #83

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Maybe it's indicating the turn order?

I'm positive you're right. Blaze is at home, so they are at bat in the first half of the inning, indicated by their row being shifted forward slightly. I think its a pretty clever design. Edit: Not so sure about it now. Its too bad it wasn't misaligned in the correct direction.

That can't be true. Even if it was deliberate for the inning scores, the Runs/Hits/Errors columns are out of whack which makes no sense.

Re: Google Now

#130

Post by melvinmt »

It's only a matter of time before Google catches up on Apple on UI and slick hardware (really only the two core strengths of AAPL) and win by using Google's core strength: DATA. The future is bright.
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