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I 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?
Hey Joe pubilc. Give us all your personal info, we provide you pretty UI. Oh and how about this recommended cafe to visit with your friend? If you go here is a 10% voucher.. Just saying..
This attitude annoys me. Everything you do is about tradeoffs, and being online is no exception. You're trading privacy for convenience, and if you don't want to, then don't. People aren't wrong for being okay with that trade; they just have different priorities than you.
"...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…
Spot on. A great illustration of this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#2._.22...
I think this is a direct competitor to the recently re-launched Cue, but with perhaps better integration with things like Glass. I'm eager to see how the Cue/Greplin team aim to address this shot across the bow, and having never used either, if there's something distinctly different about them that migh encourage me to use both (or Cue vs Now). Interesting to see two such complete implementations of 'day-planning' hi…
Except Cue is an app that can be loaded onto any iPhone, while it's unclear whether Now is a part of the new version of Android, an app, or what.
And if it's a core part of the latest version of Android, well, good luck getting that in your life without buying another phone.
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).
I think this is just a symptom of a bigger issue. With these Google demo videos, like with most webpage commercials I see, the screenshots and videos don't look like actual screenshots, but just mock-up animations. I'm sure the baseball scores are aligned properly in the actual app. But it serves as a not-so-subtle reminder that this isn't what the actual app looks like, or how it behaves. In my mind, they're associa…
The most apt comparison you can make for doing this is "fast food", rather than the 800lb gorilla in the room, Apple, who had to be sued to include "screen images simulated" and "sequences shortened" in their iPhone ads...?
"...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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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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The half bottom of the page is only examples of "Google Now cards". The phone image shows how these cards are displayed. Seems very obvious to me. What would you call them?
Dunno, a message? A notification? "Card" isn't intuitive because this isn't the way people use cards in real life. The only analogy for using cards as a notification I can think of is in an old novel where a visitor comes to your door, your butler shows them into the parlour, and brings you their calling card so you can decide whether you want to see 'em. This nowadays lies outside most folks' field of experience.
To the other person calling them "atomic" bits of information, neither the information on "Google Now Cards", business cards, or index cards is "atomic". You can easily split the information and the bits still make sense. You probably meant to say "chunk" or "unit" or perhaps "self-contained"--though external links make them not very self-contained either.
I kind of get the idea they picked the word "card" because it's such a mundane, every-day word. And they want their product to appear like that. It's just a card! Must be easy to use!
Calling it a "message" or "notification" would also make it sound intrusive, like it interrupts your activity whenever it activates. A "card" has a very passive connotation, and that's the idea they want to give: It doesn't interrupt you, only when you look at your phone, it's right there presenting you with the info you need right now.
The problem I think is, we don't really have a every-day metaphor for such a thing. Maybe a "personal assistent", but I don't think they wanted to use a metaphor of something that is "alive", because it brings connotations of inaccuracy and doing all sorts of stuff with it, while they want just this thing that, when you look at it always happens to show exactly what you want to see.
They should've called it "psychic paper" :-) (Dr. Who)
Personally I feel a bit of annoyance at calling it "card" because if this thing really takes off they've claimed a mundane every-day use word with a rather inaccurate extra meaning. And if it doesn't, it's just a program that uses weird words for simple notifications.
I do like how they actually look like cards, rectangular with a subtle drop shadow, it looks good. I wonder what the three vertical dots are for? Some UI element or branding to make it look like a sort of sprocket perforations?
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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?
I like this a lot, if there is an accident or something I'll notice via this card and potentially avoid it. Great potential here.