> And now Google has confirmed this, with a representative telling us that, “Yes, I can confirm for you: We have not submitted Google Now to Apple’s App Store.”
So there you go. Lying bastards.
Google Now has not been submitted to Apple
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that Google Now has been submitted to the Apple’s App Store and is waiting for approval, but Apple’s says that’s not true.
Apple told me today Google Now has not been submitted at all.
Why would Schmidt lie about this? Besides the fact he’s Eric Schmidt and works for Google.
Google Maps chief steps down
> Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) continues to shuffle its executive ranks, announcing Senior Vice President of Geo and Commerce Jeff Huber will step down to pursue new projects within the company. The move follows just one day after longtime head of Android Andy Rubin also resigned his post.
This happened almost a week ago, but I missed it at the time.
No thanks Google
Om Malik on launching Google Keep after just killing Google Reader:
> I spent about seven years of my online life on that service. I sent feedback, used it to annotate information and they killed it like a butcher slaughters a chicken. No conversation — dead. The service that drives more traffic than Google+ was sacrificed because it didn’t meet some vague corporate goals; users — many of them life long — be damned.
> Looking from that perspective, it is hard to trust Google to keep an app alive.
I agree completely. How can Google expect users to trust them with an app when they could shut it down at any time. No thanks Google.
Google’s penetration of Android
Benedict Evans raises some good points. This has to worry Google.