I haven't really experienced much with it. Having said that, I don't have a busy life :)
One day, however, my wife was traveling and the hotel reservation had been sent to my email address. Google Now had a card that said something along the lines of "Hey, don't forget you're checking in to such and such a place tonight!" and also showed a map, with the route from my current location to the hotel.
I thought that was cool, and I daresay if I had more of that (maybe parcel tracking, I don't know) I think it would be fun.
The other problem is that things such as public transit and traffic stats are non-existent were I am. That would be useful, too, I could imagine...
TL;DR: I'm boring and I live in a boring place. Therefore, my Google Now is pretty boring?
the down side is that they not only (can) know everything about you, but they actively scan and put it together.
Personally, I am skipping it, ads and being sold to the higher bidder advertiser aren't that far. Not to mention the fact that Google has everything about your life already extracted and ready for the local police, FBI, divorce lawyer or whatever
I think that's a downside to GMail / using Google Accounts... not really a downside to Google Now. Not saying it's not a problem, but just that it is a problem whether or not they aggregate that information for me.
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I haven't really experienced much with it. Having said that, I don't have a busy life :)
One day, however, my wife was traveling and the hotel reservation had been sent to my email address. Google Now had a card that said something along the lines of "Hey, don't forget you're checking in to such and such a place tonight!" and also showed a map, with the route from my current location to the hotel.
I thought that was cool, and I daresay if I had more of that (maybe parcel tracking, I don't know) I think it would be fun.
The other problem is that things such as public transit and traffic stats are non-existent were I am. That would be useful, too, I could imagine...
TL;DR: I'm boring and I live in a boring place. Therefore, my Google Now is pretty boring?
the down side is that they not only (can) know everything about you, but they actively scan and put it together.
Personally, I am skipping it, ads and being sold to the higher bidder advertiser aren't that far. Not to mention the fact that Google has everything about your life already extracted and ready for the local police, FBI, divorce lawyer or whatever
I think that's a downside to GMail / using Google Accounts... not really a downside to Google Now. Not saying it's not a problem, but just that it is a problem whether or not they aggregate that information for me.