Apple fans, your iPhone and iPads are about to get a smarter and, this time, you owe your thanks to Google.
Google declared on Monday it is providing its brilliant associate app Google Now to iOS. Google Now, which was formerly only available for Android, drives out details when you need it, such as the heat range while getting wearing the morning,alerts when there’s more traffic than usual and updates on news stories you’ve been following.
“The phone is something you always have with you, and Google Now can anticipate the information you might want and provide you with what’s most relevant to your life and interests,” Tamar Yehoshoua, director of product management for Google, told Mashable. “The more you use it, the more it gets to know you.”
Here’s how it works: When released for first time Google Now shows a set of exclusive “cards” based on what you might like and what you already find, from the elements to your winning super bowl group. Cards appear when you need them and if some fill that you don’t like, you can run them away. And just like Apple’s Siri assistance, it also reacts to speech orders.
“Google Now uses location and what you have indicated as interests when you are signed in to Google properties to give you relevant real-time information, even when you don’t ask for it,” Yehoshoua said. “If you search for the New York Giants often, it uses statistical data to know you are a fan and shows you the score and will display on a card within the app.”
The move is an exciting one for Google. In addition to criticism from Apple Maps and combined Siri opinions, the release of Google Now to iOS makes Apple’s software less appropriate, as customers can opt for even more Google products over the organization’s present functions.However, if Google desired to provide Apple customers a purpose to change to Android, that purpose has been taken away. Then again, with such a huge cause in business, perhaps it shouldn’t be concerned after all.
“Our goal is to get you the right information, at just the right time,” Page notes on his Google+ page. “Now provides boarding passes, delivery updates, and traffic conditions… without you having to ask first. And this quarter we added movie tickets nicely packaged with directions to the theater.”
It’s not clear when the service will launch, but expect to be quite soon as Google seem poised to greatly
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November 10, 2013
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