Sunday, July 3, 2011

Will Google+ Be a Kiler App on Mobiles?

"Because Google is also available on the iPhone you may be tempted to downplay the significance of the app for the Android ecosystem," argues Matthew Panzarino. But Google will be able to do things with the app on its platform that would never happen on iOS, he argues.

Things like a "Hangout" or "Huddle" widget, the system wide integration of Google into the operating system to capture photos and videos or email addresses and phone numbers categorized by "Circles" will only exist on Android. "In the end, it’s safe to say that Apple will never integrate even basic Google functionality into the innards of the iPhone’s OS," he argues.

And it’s not enough that Apple has its own equivalents to some of these features in its iCloud suite, Panzarino. For instance, every picture can be automatically uploaded to your Google gallery every time you press the shutter button of an Android phone, mimicking the behavior of the Photo Stream in iOS. But these photos cannot be instantly shared with a Circle of your friends, they can’t be viewed in a gorgeous, socially enabled, online gallery.

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