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'Google Search' for iOS Updated With Google Now
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Umm your computers is connected to the internet so your location is already known. Learn to deal with it.
There's nothing to refute.
You don't like location services being on, but you never said why.
In the settings you can turn individual cards on or off
EDIT: just tried it, doesn't work. :/ Now I've lost my transit card... Annoying.
EDIT 2: reappeared on its own a day later, so all good.
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Exactly...nothing special. Or do you still not get it?
Oh, and to use Siri you don't need an Apple ID.
This app still needs a lot of work. I swiped away the traffic card and now I don't know how to get it back. Also, what about package tracking and such? I searched for a tracking number with Google Now but no card appeared for that either.
I know they want to automate it to reduce interaction but it also needs to add things on the fly.
I know they want to automate it to reduce interaction but it also needs to add things on the fly.
After all those Google April Fools jokes, it's hard to take these video promos seriously lol. Anywho, can't wait to try it out!
Their goal is the same as any company, to make money. They don't make money on any hardware or even Android, they make money (95% ?) on selling ads, and they can keep their market share the more they know about you. So they don't care much at all what hardware/OS you use as long as they know about you...and they do that when you use their apps, not Apple's.
Correct, but that is the only application indicating location usage. So yes, it's Google that was active. Closing the app (in the switcher) causes the arrow to go grey. When I reopen the arrow turns purple. Pretty convincing to me.
The active location tracking does not stay on. It turns on for a short time, then shuts off. The time ranges from 5 seconds to as long as a minute. But it does turn off.
For me, I see this as a good compromise. You may not have the latest, up to date location information for Google to deliver local results in the cards and searches, but it should suffice to give you what you need.
Google just keeps making iOS even better by bringing everything from Android over to the smooth iOS platform. Strategically, that's good for Google services, but bad for Samsung, HTC, and Android itself. Weird situation.
Now, if Apple would just allow you to set a default browser (Chrome) like they allow in OS X and a default Maps app (Google Maps), then people would have a lot less to complain about because they can choose which apps they like best.
Now, if Apple would just allow you to set a default browser (Chrome) like they allow in OS X and a default Maps app (Google Maps), then people would have a lot less to complain about because they can choose which apps they like best.
I don't have any cards at all. I turned on all the cards but I don't see any of them. Not even the weather card which is supposed to be shown at all times. what should I do? (also, I live in Egypt so maybe that's a problem?)
The whole "location services always active" issue, was Google's only way around ios' multitasking limitations. On Android, Now is always running in the background, so it checks periodically for location, in a more efficient way. With iOS, Google had to employ the location APIs in order to maintain a somewhat active state and keep the cards up to date.
Until iOS evolves to allow for greater app integration or real multitasking, 3rd party apps will continue to have to use loopholes to get the most out of their apps. Even Instapaper had to invoke the location API in order to make it's app update in the background.
Until iOS evolves to allow for greater app integration or real multitasking, 3rd party apps will continue to have to use loopholes to get the most out of their apps. Even Instapaper had to invoke the location API in order to make it's app update in the background.
Deleting. Phone is getting warm and burned through 10% of my battery in less than 30 minutes. Don't need a real time location stream to google (creepy) and don't want battery life to go to crap.
I hope that Apple NEVER Does stuff like that.
Because if THAT comes into the os, searching through ALL my private and secret data ... believe me, the first thing i would do is throw away my phone.
That is MY data, i don't want someone, especially not google to use my data to throw more ads at me.
I use all those but none of those apps keep locations services enabled all day long. It's only turns on when you open the apps and turns off when you close the app.
You guys do realize that the iOS version of Google Now is not the same as the Android version in terms of things that can be done, right?
No, you're not the product, the product is ad space.
And because the product is ad space and they need you, your data doesn't go outside google
I would say like
100.000 bc use a stock to hit someone.
15.000 bc use a stone to hit someone
5000 bc use a sword to kill some one
1900 use rifles to kill people more efficient
1945 use nukes to kill much more people much more efficient.
Yes new technology is always much much better
Wait, don't just throw it away, can I have it? Because Apple and everybody else is already doing all that. It's not your data, I guess you didn't read all those long EULAs.