Google Now sounds interesting but when it comes to digital content apps (kindle, audible, etc), I don't see how shopping in your browser is even an inconvenience. If I bring up Siri and say "Google Game Of Thrones Kindle" I can have the book bought and on my screen with a few taps.
My iOS 7 Wishlist
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#92Yet the problem with your phone doing all of this location-aware intelligence is that you wind up with the dead-battery he started his article out with. Whenever I read articles like this one I'm left wondering whether my life is distinctly different from most. I generally have a pretty good idea about my calendar - where I'll be going that day, and what restaurant I'll grab a bite to eat in if that's part of my agen…
I see both sides. I agree with you, I'm the same in that I plan very accordingly and would probably go crazy if I was in a "Hotel Tonight" situation. However, I like to know that if I was ever (somehow) in a "Hotel Tonight" situation, the app is there and ready to use for my convenience. To add to your battery life point, I wish there was more exposure to how apps eat battery life on your iPhone. It would be nice if…
I'm the exact opposite. The anxiety I get from needing to stick to a regiment/ itinerary destroys me. One of my favorite parts of travelling (to cities like LA/ NY where Hotel Tonight is relevant) is hopping off a plane, heading straight to a meeting, and figuring out where to sleep on the fly.
There's definitely other kinds of people out there!
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I was very skeptical of Google Now originally, and disabled it after a week on the Nexus S. It never gave any useful info, and indeed made it unlikely the battery would last the day. But with the Nexus 4 I left it on, and have been finding it useful regularly ever since. Zero-action directions and timetables for getting home after a night out. Directions to local places I've recently searched for on maps. The automat…
Three days of battery life on the Nexus 4? That sounds like a dream. Do you put it on airplane mode when you're not using it or something?
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An app itself doesn't use much battery unless it's doing something CPU intensive. Android reports the actual thing that was using the battery. For example, if I watch YouTube until my battery's dead, it won't say YouTube used the battery, it will say the screen did.
Isn't that what he said?
He's saying he doesn't think Google Now uses much power because it doesn't shown up in the battery statistics, but he also says that GPS shows high usage. I was saying that Android doesn't report an app's usage of GPS etc. as battery usage of that app.
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#95Google Now has been pretty useless for me. Its mostly an annoyance, I'm always having to dismiss its place suggestions and "Time to home/work" notifications.
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#96I am worried that so much of the "integration" people are calling for is integration with the services of just one company, Google. And most people that want to replace the built-in iOS app defaults want to replace them with Google apps so they can use more Google services. Is that healthy for the web?
Now, Google offers the best-in-class web services in a number of domains. But I've never been very fond of many of them, and where Google apps are less than great I prefer to use the alternative--Yelp instead of Google Local, standard IMAP email instead of Gmail, Wolfram Alpha for some searches, etc.
To Google's credit, it is easier to use an alternative search engine with Android than it is to use just about any alternative service on iOS. But I don't think we're going to see Google Now integrating with Bing maps or Duckduckgo or Yelp anytime soon.
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#97I think we all need to revert back to the days of 3 sometimes 4 days battery life on old school Nokia's like the Nokia 3315. It's amazing how battery life on phones seems to get progressively worse even though battery technology is better, we're still cramming in battery draining features when all someone needs in an emergency is the ability to make a phone call or send a text, not a web browser, email client and a Facebook app.
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I also want other software, Apple's weather app is pathetic and it would be great if something more accurate could show up in my notification bar. As for why I have an iPhone, mostly because the hardware is great, I get a lot of mileage out of the iPod functionality and I do quite a bit of mobile web development that having an iOS device is handy for (regardless of sales figures, I see a ton more iOS web traffic than…
The same could be said for Stocks, Game Center, Videos, Voice Memos, Reminders, and Newsstand. In my experience, I don't use these apps but they clog up my apps list. They should be optional - They could come pre-installed, but if I deleted them and wanted to re-install Apple just needs to make a Separate "Official Apple" tab in the App Store. The only App that arguably shouldn't be removable is "Settings". Even the…
I have a folder called "Unused" that includes most of those except Newsstand because it itself is a folder and can't be put into one (or removed). I don't really want replacements for any of these, but it would be great to be able to dump them for good.
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> Yet the problem with your phone doing all of this location-aware intelligence is that you wind up with the dead-battery he started his article out with. Unlikely. The main culprits in high battery usage are the screen, the gps, and the radio when there's not very much signal. Google Now does not ever show up in my top-five battery users list.
An app itself doesn't use much battery unless it's doing something CPU intensive. Android reports the actual thing that was using the battery. For example, if I watch YouTube until my battery's dead, it won't say YouTube used the battery, it will say the screen did.
That is not actually true, because YouTube is quite CPU intensive. If you perform the experiment you just proposed, you will find YouTube has used a significant portion of the battery. But I see what you mean.
You could also try this: if Google Now is waking your phone up any significant portion of the time, it'll show up in the list as a low percentage app. You can click on it to see how much time it's keeping the CPU awake, keeping the screen on, using the GPS, etc. I believe Google Now processing is accounted to the Google Search app (because that is where all its output shows up). On my phone, which has Google Now enabled, it shows zero active time for GPS, screen awake, CPU, etc.
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#100I think we all need to revert back to the days of 3 sometimes 4 days battery life on old school Nokia's like the Nokia 3315. It's amazing how battery life on phones seems to get progressively worse even though battery technology is better, we're still cramming in battery draining features when all someone needs in an emergency is the ability to make a phone call or send a text, not a web browser, email client and a F…
Sure making a phone call or sending out a message is all that you need to do in an emergency. But that's not what the cell phone is for anymore. Back when batteries lasted 3-4 days on a charge they were there for when you needed them. Now people feel like they need them all the time. This isn't a failure of hardware or software. A mobile phone isn't a just a phone anymore, so how can we expect it to have the same battery life as something that is just a phone?