Google Now, the fantastic Android feature that delivers explore results onward you necessitate them, is reportedly coming to Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating systems. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired
Google Now is arguably the single shell feature found in Android Jelly Bean, and soon, it seems, it whitethorn be coming to iOS, Windows 8 and platebooks everywhere.
Google Now brings you search results before you even go looking for them. Just swipe up, inside(a) of Google’s search app (or from any home screen on a Nexus 4, 7 or 10), and Google Now activates. From there, the Google search app delivers today’s weather, your Google Calendar appointments, directions to home or attain (depending on what time of day it is), a heads up to near events, the score from your favorite sports team’s latest game, embarkation passes, package tracking, dinner reservations and a lot more.
On Tuesday, Engadget was tipped arrive at to a YouTube boob tube (that was shortly removed from the video sharing site) that is reportedly a Google ad promoting Google Now on the iPhone and iPad. If the video isn’t real, it’s a fantastic fake — the share over, the artwork, the happy hipster pop soundtrack are all stage on Google. Meanwhile, French web developer, Francois Beaufort, found a Chrome flag for Google Now in the latest version of chromium — a version of Google’s Chrome Browser employ by developers before updates hit the public, that would enable Google Now’s usage in both Google’s Chrome OS and Windows 8.
Yet while there are plenty of hints Google Now go away venture outside of Android, there’s still no confirmation. A Google spokesperson told Wired that the company isn’t commenting on the YouTube video, or Beaufort’s Chromium find.
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