Google Now on your iPhone and iPad
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Google Now on your iPhone and iPad
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#2Glad to see this coming to iOS, the more users, the more feedback Google will get on how to improve the service for everyone.
Hope Apple can try their hand at creating some cross platform applications as well.
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#3I honestly did not expect to see Google Now on iDevices. For me it is definitely the "killer app" on my Android phone.
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#5I have a question for our Android-using brethren who've had the opportunity to play with Now. I've read a bit about it over the past few weeks, and I've been excited about a port to iOS, but now that I have it, I'm not sure how or if it'll fit into my life day-to-day.
At first brush, all I see is a weather widget. I know there's more to it, but where exactly does the magic happen? What have you done (if anything) to maximize its value?
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#6Well, I hate to admit it, because I am an ex-iOS user that ran away from it because of the closed ecosystem, but seeing that it keeps aggregating the absolute best applications, even from Google, and with the goodness everyone feels is coming from the Ive-influenced iOS 7, I might have to fall back into the walled garden.
Apple is really good at this stuff.
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#7If I have to launch the app is it really Google Now? Or do I not need to launch the app?
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#8I have a question for our Android-using brethren who've had the opportunity to play with Now. I've read a bit about it over the past few weeks, and I've been excited about a port to iOS, but now that I have it, I'm not sure how or if it'll fit into my life day-to-day. At first brush, all I see is a weather widget. I know there's more to it, but where exactly does the magic happen? What have you done (if anything) to…
It used to be an useless time to commute by car to home (and I used to take the train) and the weather thing. Until I went on vacation to Germany and it started popping places to see, German translating widgets and other goodness. Not that useful still, but I believe it can grow into something really useful and quick.
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#9I have a question for our Android-using brethren who've had the opportunity to play with Now. I've read a bit about it over the past few weeks, and I've been excited about a port to iOS, but now that I have it, I'm not sure how or if it'll fit into my life day-to-day. At first brush, all I see is a weather widget. I know there's more to it, but where exactly does the magic happen? What have you done (if anything) to…
The magic happens in the best way. The idea is stuff only appears when it's useful and like "magic". For instance, when ever there is a bulls game it shows me who is playing with in the next day and the score when it's over. It'll tell me my time to get home or if I just googled a restaurant then it will tell me how long to get to the restaurant. I love it, but it's very subtle which is even better.
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#10I've used personal assistant like products before. But google now is the only one I keep going back to. Personal context is critical for a working personal assistant - you need to know the whereabout, the calendar, the habit, the preferences about everything. That's the power of Google streamline of products.
Google better not be evil.