Searching for "Google Now" in the Play store on my Galaxy S3 yields nothing, once again the Android user experience is found wanting.
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#132I hate the thought of worrying about the future ramifications of my searches. For example if someone asks me to check the time of a sports ball game for them will Google Now nag me with sports scores I don't care about in the future?
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#133"...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…
Also, what the hell is a card? After reading the word "card" for the 5th time, even after reading the few paragraphs below the main image, I still have no clue what on earth a card is. Like an app in webOS? Or is it a game of some kind? Apps and websites that invent their own names for existing concepts and seem to assume that you're silly for not having inborn knowledge of what they mean are frustrating.
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#134Confusing that nothing on the page (besides the video) mentions the word "Android" or how you can get Now.
Exactly. Is it an Android app? A browser / mobile combo? Is there an iOS version? Where do I get it? If I can't try it now, when is it being released?
Its in the jelly bean release of Android, when you click on the Google search box it shows up.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Insurance companies will one day pay Google to find your searches/emails on what ails you. Then you'll get an insurance rate increase.
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#136Now they will even know what do I eat!.
Google will know me even better than myself. I'm not sure I like the idea.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Any Baseball fan (even those of us who are English) know that the home team are on the bottom of a linescore, and that the away team bats in the top half of each inning - no indentation is needed to explain this.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No, home teams bat second and are always listed on the bottom. This is simply misaligned. They're in the top of the 9th so that dash under the 8th inning for the Clovers should be shifted to the right.
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#139Google 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
I really like the design of this- but it's such a contrast to the rest of Android.
Compare Google Now to Google Play- Google Play just sends me into convulsions.
Really hoping this design takes over Android, and ASAP.
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#140I hate the thought of worrying about the future ramifications of my searches. For example if someone asks me to check the time of a sports ball game for them will Google Now nag me with sports scores I don't care about in the future?
I'm constantly frustrated by this. I use incognito browsing way too often. Then when I come across something by accident that I do want in my history (either for searching through history later or because chrome occasionally crashes), I have to copy the link over to a normal-browsing chrome window.