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"But Windows Phone is entering a dangerous time, one in which its competitors are starting to catch up" Pffft. Really? ROFL.
It's Paul Thurrott. He's like the mirror-universe version of John Gruber who only boosts Microsoft stuff instead of Apple.
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It would also be nice to be able to tell it "I'm going to my girlfriends house after work". In that situation, telling me there's a traffic jam on my route home isn't useful information at all. I also would love the ability (if it exists, I haven't seen it) to have it use geocoded reminders, like "remind me to get milk when I'm near the grocery store".
Have you tried onx? https://www.onx.ms
It's cute. I've been using it for the past couple of weeks on a Nexus 4. My opinion on it currently is that it looks promising but it's quite useless until there are finer controls on when and how cards appear (the controls there are now are really simplistic), and more importantly the ability to create my own cards, which would give me a reason to get back into SL4A. As an example, the commute card that shows your d…
I've found that Now has started automatically showing me the distance to my frequently visited places. I suspect this is because I've navigated to their location a few times on Google Maps, so Google knows this is a location I care about. I'm guessing you've already set your home and work location in Google Maps? You could then also search for your other work location, and Now should automatically start prioritizing…
Haven't tried navigating though. I'll give that a shot.
Well, my three month old android phone says: Your device is not compatible with this version. I guess I'll check it out in one year and nine months when I get my next phone.
What I'm saying is, you can either get Jelly Bean on your device via Cyanogenmod or you can get ICS and hack Google Now onto it with instructions found online.
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The user experience with Google Now varies heavily depending on your usage habits and the type of phone you have. The only thing Google Now showed me for months were outdated, inaccurate weather 'forecasts' that made absolutely no sense (and opening it took more than 30 seconds on my old Nexus S). Boy, was I disappointed. But if you set your Settings to the right items, you enable all your Search History, and everyth…
> enable all your Search History This is something I just can't bring myself to do. I disabled it years ago, along with all the other personalization options. I don't mind giving them my location. I don't even mind them analyzing my mail. But I search for all kinds of crap, and I really really don't want anyone building a profile on me based on that. The manual customization options in Google Now are sadly lacking. I…
"But Windows Phone is entering a dangerous time, one in which its competitors are starting to catch up" Pffft. Really? ROFL.
It's Paul Thurrott. He's like the mirror-universe version of John Gruber who only boosts Microsoft stuff instead of Apple.
"But Windows Phone is entering a dangerous time, one in which its competitors are starting to catch up" Pffft. Really? ROFL.
He's speaking of a single category advantage in which WPh has an arguably better design... integrated services instead of silo'd apps.
He says this was their advantage and that (with their sloth-like dev pace) MS is in the process of squandering it, because competitors are adding those improvements, leaving WPh with none.
That competitors have other huge advantages to lean on is not included in this piece, but as a fan of TWIT, he is well aware of them.
Well, my three month old android phone says: Your device is not compatible with this version. I guess I'll check it out in one year and nine months when I get my next phone.
I actually have it running on my HP Touchpad running Ice Cream Sandwich. Isn't one of the benefits of Android that it's so open you can make it do just about anything? If I didn't want to hack my mobile device, I definitely would not have gotten invested in the Android platform. In my opinion, that ability is literally the only advantage it has over the competition. Without the hacker community supporting it, it's ba…
"But Windows Phone is entering a dangerous time, one in which its competitors are starting to catch up" Pffft. Really? ROFL.
You're quoting out of context. He's speaking of a single category advantage in which WPh has an arguably better design... integrated services instead of silo'd apps. He says this was their advantage and that (with their sloth-like dev pace) MS is in the process of squandering it, because competitors are adding those improvements, leaving WPh with none. That competitors have other huge advantages to lean on is not inc…