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Google+ For iOS Awaiting App Store Approval

21 points by joejohnson 15y ago

martythemaniak 15y ago
I wonder if they'll take a year to approve this one too. It duplicates Ping functionality you know...
- CamperBob 15y ago
  "Pondering..." "Pondering..." "Pondering..."
rakkhi 15y ago
Are people using G+ on Android? How is it? Especially on a tablet? Can't wait for this to be approved.
- aristidb 15y ago
  On my phone, it works very well. It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only).
  - esrauch 15y ago
    I suspect that once they get around to it integrated group chat is going to get rolled back into gchat. It remains to be seen how that will play out on android though (perhaps with the chat app being completely dropped in favor of the G+ app).
  - patrickaljord 15y ago
    > It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only). 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.
- ben1040 15y ago
  The interface is really nice on a phone. Clean, very responsive. The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. 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.
  - rakkhi 15y ago
    Do you find yourself using hangouts on the mobile? This is a feature I could see leaving on all day on the iPad (on free wireless and plugged into power)
    - ben1040 15y ago
      Sadly the hangout feature isn't implemented in the mobile app; it's the top feature on my wishlist. It's something I'd certainly like to be able to use on my tablet for sure. 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+.
  - tonfa 15y ago
    > The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. 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.
- Tsagadai 15y ago
  Surprisingly, Google+ is blocked on the South Korean Android Market.
  - antrix 15y ago
    Not available in Singapore Market either.
gojomo 15y ago
I have a hunch (but no inside knowledge) that Facebook's big announcement Wednesday could go beyond the rumored video-chat-via-Skype to include other alliances. If new ties to Apple are part of it – Facetime compatibility, perhaps? – GooPlus on iOS might be facing a big headwind.
- oldstrangers 15y ago
  If that's the case, then a retaliatory removal of the facebook app from the Android market would seem in order.
  - mostly_harmless 15y ago
    That just seems anti-competitory. I wouldn't expect Apple to reject google on the pretext of working with facebook, and I think it would be even more ridiculous for google to actually remove a currently existing app of a competitor.
    - oldstrangers 15y ago
      I'm no Nostradamus, but the indications are clear: the world of Big Tech is about to get very hostile. If Google+ takes off, then Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft are going to come out with guns blazing. Acquisitions, mergers, app removals. 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.
RyanKearney 15y ago
Now I REALLY wish iOS 5 had Facebook or Google+ integration and not this Twitter crap. Honestly, what percentage of people say to themselves "I have to post this picture to Twitter right now!" compared to those who want to post it to Facebook. Same applies for status updates.
flocial 15y ago
The big problem with the mobile social platform right now is that it's all left to the whim of platform owners to "approve" these apps. It's about as social as a street protest in Iran. You might get away with it, you might get beat with a club. The main paradox is that you social and open don't mix. We choose the people we socialize with but we don't want to be limited in our choices.
- mrspandex 15y ago
  By "platform owners," you mean Apple, right? I'm not aware of Android requiring any approval.

21 points by joejohnson 15y ago

martythemaniak 15y ago

I wonder if they'll take a year to approve this one too. It duplicates Ping functionality you know...

CamperBob 15y ago
"Pondering..." "Pondering..." "Pondering..."

rakkhi 15y ago

Are people using G+ on Android? How is it? Especially on a tablet? Can't wait for this to be approved.

aristidb 15y ago
On my phone, it works very well. It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only).
- esrauch 15y ago
  I suspect that once they get around to it integrated group chat is going to get rolled back into gchat. It remains to be seen how that will play out on android though (perhaps with the chat app being completely dropped in favor of the G+ app).
- patrickaljord 15y ago
  > It also has an integrated group chat (which for ominous reasons is mobile-only). 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.
ben1040 15y ago
The interface is really nice on a phone. Clean, very responsive. The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. 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.
- rakkhi 15y ago
  Do you find yourself using hangouts on the mobile? This is a feature I could see leaving on all day on the iPad (on free wireless and plugged into power)
  - ben1040 15y ago
    Sadly the hangout feature isn't implemented in the mobile app; it's the top feature on my wishlist. It's something I'd certainly like to be able to use on my tablet for sure. 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+.
- tonfa 15y ago
  > The image auto-upload is a really spiffy feature, but I feel a little creeped out about it, even if it does upload everything to a private Picasa album and I need to act to make images public. 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.
Tsagadai 15y ago
Surprisingly, Google+ is blocked on the South Korean Android Market.
- antrix 15y ago
  Not available in Singapore Market either.

gojomo 15y ago

I have a hunch (but no inside knowledge) that Facebook's big announcement Wednesday could go beyond the rumored video-chat-via-Skype to include other alliances. If new ties to Apple are part of it – Facetime compatibility, perhaps? – GooPlus on iOS might be facing a big headwind.

oldstrangers 15y ago
If that's the case, then a retaliatory removal of the facebook app from the Android market would seem in order.
- mostly_harmless 15y ago
  That just seems anti-competitory. I wouldn't expect Apple to reject google on the pretext of working with facebook, and I think it would be even more ridiculous for google to actually remove a currently existing app of a competitor.
  - oldstrangers 15y ago
    I'm no Nostradamus, but the indications are clear: the world of Big Tech is about to get very hostile. If Google+ takes off, then Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Microsoft are going to come out with guns blazing. Acquisitions, mergers, app removals. 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.

RyanKearney 15y ago

Now I REALLY wish iOS 5 had Facebook or Google+ integration and not this Twitter crap. Honestly, what percentage of people say to themselves "I have to post this picture to Twitter right now!" compared to those who want to post it to Facebook. Same applies for status updates.

flocial 15y ago

The big problem with the mobile social platform right now is that it's all left to the whim of platform owners to "approve" these apps. It's about as social as a street protest in Iran. You might get away with it, you might get beat with a club. The main paradox is that you social and open don't mix. We choose the people we socialize with but we don't want to be limited in our choices.

mrspandex 15y ago
By "platform owners," you mean Apple, right? I'm not aware of Android requiring any approval.