I approve, the new design makes more sense like that, the black nav-bar seemed out of place. I still don't have it yet and wonder how the homepage looks like? (Google.com)
Oh, boo hoo. It's not like it's a popup for a hair-loss product or whatever, it's a notice in Chrome for a Chrome like product and there is an "x" beside it.
Sigh. If this small gesture would appease those trying to ruin the internet with stupid copyright laws and delay their stupidity then why not? there is no harm there, the sites are indexed, this is by no means "censorship" and some lawyer could argue in court that with autocomplete Google is helping pirates or whatever. This is a non-issue.
Not all editorial action is "censorship", the sites in question are still indexed. And I think you are aware why they are doing it considering the pressure on them from politicians and harmful laws introduced all the time. The title is link-bait.
The app wasn't meant to attract new users but mainly to support existing ones, so it's an option that is "good to have" rather than the product itself. If a user or a company deploying Google Apps felt that they needed a native option then it's available, and for Google it won't cost much to maintain because they are already investing in the webapp.
One of the advantages of repackaging webapps is that they can be quickly iterated upon and in any case that is the Google way: release early, iterate often. The app should gain the missing features soon enough.
Even when the webapp is great? I don't see why they or anyone else should maintain several versions of the same app, focusing on one version and iterating quickly is surly to everyone's benefit.
The thing I like most about the iOS Gmail app is that it’s an elegant solution, they packaged the excellent webapp (the soon to be released redesign) and endowed it with native notification capability. It’s a cost-effective solution and one that makes sense, packaging webapps and augmenting them with native capabilities, voice control in the case of the search app. Now my question is when will we see the new Google design on the desktop?
What is this obsession in the press about killing Google initiatives? I'm not imagining this am I? it's all about "this isn't working why even bother".
Not everything needs be an over night success, specially new concepts such as this, they seem to even dismiss the notion of long term projects. Is it just PR attacks from Google's competitors or is it that they just like to gloat?
Why not? it's younger than Intagram and one has to start somewhere. Also it's natural fit for Google, they have disparate social feature for disparate products and now they can unify them, it's mission isn't to kill Facebook.
Sigh. It seems like every 2 weeks that same article is reprinted under that same headline only on a different outlet, with no apparent reason but to troll.
So it’s been a few month now and G+ hasn’t solved world hunger and Facebook still exists, then it must be binned! I have no proof but I would wager that these “articles” are printed at the urgency of interested parties who sent their PR pitches to the media akin to spear phishing attempts and someone is bound to publish some of it.
Nah, they've already released Gmail. And by the amount of stuff they release statistically they will muck up a few, luckily it's mostly easily fixable. He is just angry his "scoop" went sour.
They released a buggy app they didn't go about punching orphans. Their webapp is excellent and the native one will be fixed and re-released, let's get things in prospective and try to complain less about free stuff.
Let's compare Google's stats with the rest of the industry .. Oh, wait! we can't! because no one else publishes a transparency report.
You can't knock Google for complying with the law and not devoting resources to fruitlessly fight every court order and removal request when the goal of their transparency effort is to highlight the problems with that law and try and change it. They're doing something unique and are trying to fix the larger problem yet some people still give them shit for it.
I think there is a misunderstanding here. Reader is not going away and it will still be a feed reader. As for encryption, Reader currently doesn't use SSL, G+ on the other hand does so that's an improvement. The changes if I understood correctly are that Reader will get an interface overhaul and it's social capabilities will be outsources to G+.
I find that post extremely condescending, G+ has more users (active and otherwise) than Foursquare and Instagram combined and then some, yet no one doubts the "success" of these services.
What grammar recognition? it's a combination of keyword extraction and limited functionality. Using words like "time" or "clock" or "wake" for example would trigger the alarm clock functionality, it's not analyzing grammar because it doesn't have to since the limited actions involved have their specific vocabulary.