Google Now wants you to be always-on and connected to your Google
account, your search history active and your transactions flowing
through Google. The Glass-like reinvention of Google Now voice search,
with its Siri-like feel, is a post-app service: it's everything,
really. I used to just use Google for search, e-mail, and documents, but
the deeper layer of connective tissue between services means you don't
want to stop being logged in...ever. And it continues, across platforms.
Hangouts, as a chatlike app, takes on Facebook. And so on. I kept
coming up against the Inevitable Everywhereness of Google.
Chrome, the big-push OS of the show at an event that had no new version of
Android,
might be the ultimate vision of Google You. The account-tied cloud
log-in, the ways in which apps give way to a seamless bleed of services
-- a year ago I found myself wondering why Chrome existed, and suddenly I
have a feeling Chrome will outlast Android. Get More
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