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It's not an app... it's like the notification tray. You can't simply 'take' the notification tray from one OS to another. Same with this. It comes with Jelly Bean.
So my one year old phone will never see it. I am so tired of the one year obsolescence cycle of Android phones.
"...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…
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…
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Seriously. Features like this, although very cool at a glance, are teaching future generations of users to have no respect for their privacy or personal information.
Could be, but it is an honest question. I fully understand and respect people who loves this, but I would like a little love back too for my desire to stay outside of this social maelstorm.
I don't trust facebook and thus I don't use it. It's easy.
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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.
It's been a HN meme for quite some time.
There are quite a few privacy concerns about these technologies, and I think that proper legislation is necessary to address them. Most people trust a bank to hold their money, and there is legislation to control financial institutions. Now, people are increasingly trusting their data with data banks, and there needs to be legislation to control how the data is stored securely and not abused.
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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?
That wasn't counting the times I used it for the regular voice actions.
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).
This feels like its aimed at Siri, and if so I feel it misunderstands Siri's value. I don't want pushed content. I want light content that is pulled with my personal, minimal, request and without fuss. This is random content covered in fuss. I'll completely leave any real judgement until its release, but I can't help but wonder how long until I can "sponsor" a local card? Also, Google needs to pair down its services.…
2. I don't know why you think Google would push this here. People like to act like Google is going to push ads on people, but they have no history. They've always been about unintrusive, (seriously now) helpful ads. It seems like this is just a hypothetical reason to position against Google Now right out of the gate.
3. Google is "pairing down". They cut dozens of things in March and Google+ has done wonders for unifying value and promoting integration across Google products. I don't even know how to address the last sentence, it's just blatantly hyperbolic.