Google+ For iOS Awaiting App Store Approval
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Some googlers said that if you want live chat on google+ desktop, you just post something and the page updates automatically with new comments. Giving the same experience as a group chat, not to mention hangouts which have both chat and video.
The integrated group conversation feature ("Huddle") is really slick.
Not as nice on a Honeycomb tablet; you get the typical "just stretch the phone interface" behavior. It's still usable, but just not optimal. Honestly I'm a little surprised they didn't push this app out the door without a tablet-specific interface.
The only "real time" group conversation feature is "Huddle," which is just a group text chat -- and this feature isn't available on the website at all, only on the native mobile app. I've only used this feature once; I might use it more often if I had more friends with Android phones who were also on Google+.
It's pretty nice when people try to get you to remove some pictures (e.g. it's useful for some protesters), since as soon as you get a picture it's on the cloud.
"Pondering..."
"Pondering..."
If new ties to Apple are part of it – Facetime compatibility, perhaps? – GooPlus on iOS might be facing a big headwind.
The cloud music front is still up for grabs, something that should be Apple's to dominate, but so far it's not. Will Apple allow Google's cloud service on the iPhone? What if Google+ has some kind of cloud music functionality? Disallow both services?
Twitter, who just buddied up with Apple, obviously has zero interest in Google+'s very Twitter like stream and @ replies.
Microsoft is in bed with Facebook, and Microsoft has no interest in Android, let alone anything else to do with Google.
The Tech Wars are coming.