AppleInsider Staff
A video showing off an alleged Google Now app built for iOS was supposedly leaked to YouTube on Tuesday, with the promotional-style clip touting the service's major features including real time data acquisition and predictive actions.
Spotted by Engadget, the low-resolution promo, which teased Google Now for iPhone and iPad, was reportedly posted to YouTube earlier today, only to be pulled minutes later.
In the short clip, the narrator describes a number of predictive features offered by the service which first launched on Android handsets in 2012, including real time navigation rerouting, air travel updates and sports scores.
It should be noted that the authenticity of the video has not been confirmed, though the overall style and narration fit with Google's previous ads touting the Google Now for Android product.
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Yes please....looks very nice.
[quote name="AppleInsider" url="/t/156431/google-now-for-ios-allegedly-demoed-in-leaked-promotional-video#post_2292144"]A video showing off an alleged Google Now app built for iOS was supposedly leaked to YouTube on Tuesday, with the promotional-style clip touting the service's major features including real time [I]transmission of all your private data to Google[/I].[/quote] Fixed that for you.
Keep that tin foil hat tight.
It will be sweet to get this on iOS. Has to be another kick in the nuts to Android users though.
If one day I decide to buy an iPhone, it would be because of Google, not Apple.
Live updates can be far more useful than getting stuck in a search, read, search, read loop. I know. The OneBusAway app on my iPhone gives constant updates of Seattle bus arrivals. This could be that for All Sorts of Things. I have my doubts about live traffic updates though. If too many people use the feature, that quickest route can quickly become a parking lot.