Apple Says Google Now Not Submitted To The App Store

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/apple-says-google-now-not-submitted-to-the-app-store-seems-eric-was-talking-schmidt/

by ankneo • 13 years ago

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schiang• 13 years ago

keeping it a secret until its actually released?

gkoberger• 13 years ago

Either way, all signs point to Google Now showing up in the app store soon. Google (via Eric Schmidt's evidently mistaken comments) wouldn't say this if it wasn't at least ready to go, and Apple probably wouldn't comment now if they weren't going to let it in.

buster2• 13 years ago

The Google Now app on Android is probably one of the best crafted, smoothest experiences i have seen, no comparison to the crappy facebook app. So, let's hope it will have a similar quality on iOS! :)

ajross2• 13 years ago

Are you sure you aren't talking about the Google+ app, which is a better comparison to Facebook (and about which I agree: it's just fantastically great).

Google Now is, actually, one of the core Android features about which I care the least. On my CM10.1 Galaxy Nexus, it's really quite slow (3-4 seconds to do anything when I try to click on the search bar or swipe it up from the bottom of the screen). The default cards are at best only mildly useful, though sometimes impressive: it will tell me driving times to places that I just searched for, it will tell me the weather, it will warn me about notable traffic on the way home. Amusingly it just alerted me to the fact that Adria Richards had been fired by SendGrid.

Basically: it occasionally impresses me, but doesn't actually help me all that much. It just doesn't enter my radar most of the time. Even as a search interface it's too slow to be my primary gateway: I'll preferentially pull up chrome and type the search into the URL bar there.

hayksaakian• 13 years ago

Out of curiosity, which 10.1 do you use? I've been on CM 10 stable since it came out, but I'm not sure what's stable recently.

dsirijus• 13 years ago

My experience exactly. It needs to function order of magnitude faster, and guesswork it does is still pretty dodgy. Only one 'wow' was when it offered me currency exchange values when I was abroad. And then, Chrome stepped up with ads and search in a different language and ruined the moment.

That being said, it does show promise, but it's certainly not there yet.

buster2• 13 years ago

You're right, i did confuse Google Now and Google+, d'oh! :(

I don't get Google Now, though. It's rather slow and i still haven't seen much something that helps me on a day-to-day base. I don't know if other countries see different offers, but it basically shows me the weather (wow, have that already) and how long i may take home (or not, because it get's it wrong).

And for pure searching it just starts too slow, imo (using a Galaxy Nexus here).

I can see that it is a little bit faster now then a few months ago and there are many more cards in the preferences.. but it still only shows me weather and driving time. The Google Voice recognition works surprisingly well nowadays..

jmhain• 13 years ago

"On my CM10.1 Galaxy Nexus, it's really quite slow (3-4 seconds to do anything when I try to click on the search bar or swipe it up from the bottom of the screen)."

Try disabling "Hotword Detection" in the voice section of Google Now settings. I also run CM10.1 on my GNex (toro), and that made it open and respond almost instantly.

tuxracer• 13 years ago

Having tried it on both the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 I can say it's incredibly faster on the Nexus 4 (stock ROM).

yanw3• 13 years ago

But Eric Schmidt did not say that the app was submitted:

“You’ll need to discuss that with Apple” (at around 17:50). “Apple has a policy of approving or disapproving apps that are submitted into its store, and some of them they approve and some of them they don’t,”

(via http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/googles-eric-schmidt-says-t...)

eridius2• 13 years ago

It's really easy to read that comment as meaning "we've submitted it, ball's in Apple's court". And I'm sure Schmidt knew that when he said it.

yanw3• 13 years ago

It's much too vague and subtle to warrant an official statement in my opinion.

cbs• 13 years ago

TechCrunch reporting on misrepresentation of a quote that TechCrunch originally read too much into?

This is my surprised face.

defap• 13 years ago

Sure, but if the app hasn't been submitted, then what is there to discuss with Apple? What is he talking about?

yanw3• 13 years ago

I got the impression that he was talking in generalities.

skc2• 13 years ago

You know, the conspiracy theorist in me thinks it's possible that Schmidt wanted to force Apple's hand. Now Apple have no choice but to approve the app despite the fact that it probably does replicate some functionality already built into iOS through Siri.

saddino• 13 years ago

How does Apple responding that it has not been submitted force them to approve it???

skc2• 13 years ago

Because Schmidts words end up looking prophetic if they don't approve it.

rthomas6• 13 years ago

How does releasing an iOS version of Google Now benefit Google?

Edit: Don't downvote me, I really want to know. It seems to me that Apple is Google's main competitor in the smartphone business. Why would Google give Google Now away to Apple, when it's currently something that give Android an edge over iOS?

27182818284• 13 years ago

Google makes money from each search. My numbers are probably dated, but at one point it was something like 13 cents a search on the average. Glancing at their 2011 revenue and making a naive approximation by dividing by the number of searches gives about 2 cents per search. Therefore, more people using Google search means more revenue. Also the experience might create a different route to revenue for them. Suppose you start to like Google Maps then Google Now, then maybe Google+, then maybe your next device is a Nexus rather than an iPad.

Apple Says Google Now Not Submitted To The App Store

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