If Siri ever gave you a headache you must have learned that there are alternatives to Apple’s digital assistant, and Google has one that’s possibly even better. The best part is that you won’t have to jailbreak your iPhone or iPad anymore to get that because the Google Now assistant is now available for iPad and iPhone. You can find them app in Apple App Store.
Apple has disappointed several times and Google was there to give users the better alternative. Remember the Apple Maps fiasco? Well, Siri isn’t just as faulty but there are better things out there and Google Now for iPad, iPhone is one of them. There are more languages available and since Google is the genius of web search, all of your queries are handled by a longtime search expert. So they are a lot more accurate.
Apple has disappointed several times and Google was there to give users the better alternative. Remember the Apple Maps fiasco? Well, Siri isn’t just as faulty but there are better things out there and Google Now for iPad, iPhone is one of them. There are more languages available and since Google is the genius of web search, all of your queries are handled by a longtime search expert. So they are a lot more accurate.
“One of the things you have started to see is that Google is finding a mature design language across all of its products” explained Matias Duarte, Director of Android User Experience at Google. “When we started working on Google Now last year, we had people from all over the company from Search to Google Labs to Android come help design it” he added.
Although Google Now is an integrated part of the Android experience, the Google assistant for iPad and iPhone promises to give the user the same quality experience, with clean design and accurate results. But Google Now for iOS does bring something new to the table:
“We don’t want to just uniformly force one experience on to anyone, regardless of the platform” Duarte added in a statement for ABC News. “It has to be a good visitor in the country it lives in, while still retaining its unique identity. You need to accommodate the environment your experience lives in” he added.
So what’s Siri saying about Google’s challenge right on its turf? When asked about that, she replies “If it’s all the same to you, I’d rather Google later”. But iPhone and iPad users that have already installed Google Now believe Siri “is looking a little green with envy”. Mike Allton, a longtime iPhone user, believes competition like this is good “because it will lead to even more improvements”.
