Nice. This looks awesome. Maybe it's just me, but it's a little ironic that Google has obviously spent a lot of time making a really cool app for iOS while neglecting their very own OS, Android. I use both and would love a tool like this for Android. Props to Google.
Unless I'm misinterpreting this, it looks like Google has managed to write what is essentially a third-party iPad browser and get it accepted into the App Store. They've even got a Chrome OS like page for apps. Am I missing something here, or is Google trying to usurp Apple's control?
As far as I am aware, you can submit third party browsers as long as they use the supplied webkit framework.
i was just going to say the same thing. personally i think this is brilliant.
Add multiple tabs and I'd never use Safari again. Think Safari on iOS 5 got worse... the top nav bar takes up more room now.
From the video in this link, it looks like they might start going for the tabbed thing. That window that the search results are pulled up in looks a lot like a tab to me. Just a matter of time, Google...
You might want to take a look at iCab.
The app is indeed very nice to use but while minimizing (five finger gesture) I get a red (Recording) bar on top - not sure what is going on. Anyone else get this? I have already denied location permission to the app.
This looks really great. There are some awesome new interactions that might actually work really well. I'm happy to see Google didn't try to pull what they did with their Gmail app.
Excuse my ignorance (I'm follow Android much more closely than iOS), but what did they pull with their Gmail app?