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As far as I know, I've only had Google Now in my Dev Channel Chrome for some months. Has it really already arrived in the Stable Channel? And in that case, woul
by watson 13y ago
As far as I know, I've only had Google Now in my Dev Channel Chrome for some months. Has it really already arrived in the Stable Channel? And in that case, wouldn't that have required the version numbers of all the channels to be bumped up (the Dev channel have been v35 since late February)? As far as I know features don't make it down the channels (Dev -> Beta -> Stable) individually (e.g. by being "cherry-picked") - they instead stay within the version where they where first added.
- tijs 13y agoI got a notification that they were now offering Now in my Chrome browser about two weeks ago. I run the stable channel version.
- watson 13y agoApparently they must be rolling this feature out differently than other features which trickle down the channels. Maybe Google Now have been in the channels for a while without anybody knowing, just disabled unless some flag was enabled by either the client or a server. This way they can enable it for only certain users, circumventing the normal Channel release cycle. I found this interesting quote in a 2014/02/03 blog post[1] on the Google Chrome blog: "Update 3/24/2014: Starting today and rolling out over the next few weeks, Google Now users in all languages will be able to get these notifications in all channels of Chrome. To enable this feature, simply sign in to Chrome with the same Google Account you’re using for Google Now on Android or iOS." This also suggest that they are using a different release approach than just relying on the release-channels. [1] http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/02/get-notifications-from-google-now-in.html http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/02/get-notifications-from-go...