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Re: Google Now

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Post by barista »

rryan wrote: post #116
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…

Most of these are passive notifications -- i.e. they don't ping you they're just there in your notification bar (or if you swipe up to start the Google Now app). In some cases, it makes sense for some of these to be notifications that ping you. I want my phone to remind me if I need to leave right now to make my next meeting. Finally, you can configure each individual card provider to be on or off so if you don't lik…

So this looks similar to the Local Scout that Windows Phone added a couple of years ago. Of course that was limited only to places.

Features like these are nice "demo" features. These make great ads but does it really get used in real life?

Re: Google Now

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Post by pawelwentpawel »

It would be really cool if this would have a rule-system programmable by user. Something like - "if I'm next to a good [type] restaurant show a card", "When I enter my flat, show me [last messages, friends updates, ..., n] etc. On{x} (www.onx.ms) seems to be doing it in a pretty interesting way. I'm pretty sure that merging those two ideas would create a very handy product.

Re: Google Now

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Post by r00fus »

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…

> . It seems the assumption is that people will adapt to however fast we can push the information at them. I'm not so sure that is an valid assumption. Or if it is, I'm not sure I like the way we would adapt to this vision of the future.

If true, this would be very ironic, as Google's ascendancy was based on their curation of the wild wild web, making sense of the terabytes of data out there.

Re: Google Now

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Post by esalman »

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 comes with Android 4.1 I flashed a Jelly Bean ROM today that came out on xda-developers. You access Google Now by swiping up on the lockscreen. Uploaded a screenshot here- http://s18.postimage.org/7obav45sp/Screenshot.png

Re: Google Now

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Post by gouranga »

Scene_Cast2 wrote: post #155
gouranga wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spot on. A great illustration of this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#2._.22...

Just watched this. That's... well... wow. My question: how do we prevent this from happening? Free market + choice?

Well personally I just swapped my smartphone (lumia 710) for a 10 year old Nokia 3310.

In the last two weeks since I disposed of it, I'm less stressed, considerably more alert, have slept better, feel like I'm slightly less thick, more productive and haven't had a single migrane.

The thing was a ball and chain.

EDIT: this move was motivated by Black Mirror. Thank you Mr Brooker.

Re: Google Now

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Post by nixarn »

mikk0j wrote: post #115

LOL. The closed captioning in the beginning of that demo video reads like a haiku from an emo kid: "Tear out your day / all that information is rainy days / actually needed." Not sure if it makes me trust Google's efforts to bring me "just the right information at just the right time."

yeah I couldn't stop reading that text. I was wondering wtf the text was all about ^_^ ( http://i.imgur.com/IhOXd.png )

Re: Google Now

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Post by dwc »

napoleoncomplex wrote: post #123
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 tha…

I really doubt this is the case, from my experience with other Google products. On Google+ valuable screen real estate is devoted to telling me I could follow popular entertainment people, or trying to get me to chat, hangout, et al. My android phone is chock full of things I can't get rid of, things that start services which if turned off turn themselves back on, etc. To actually use android I had to finally break down and get a gmail account, and found that my youtube account switched irrevocably to gmail. I was not asked, and there was no undoing it.

Everywhere I turn with Google I am being forced into a Procrustean bed, and you tell me that everything with Google Now is totally configurable so that it'll fit me. Sorry, at this point I do not believe you.

Re: Google Now

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Post by guelo »

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…

It's been interesting how every Google announcement on HN this week has had a negative reaction as the top comment. People here don't seem to like seeing Google innovating for some reason.
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