Android 6.0 Marshmallow: Google Now on Tap is Google's nuclear weapon | BGR

Android 6.0 Marshmallow: Google Now on Tap is Google’s nuclear weapon | BGR

By Brad Reed on Oct 6, 2015 at 4:10 PM The best thing about Android is also the worst thing about Android — namely, the software is very good at predicting your needs, although it does this by relentlessly collecting information about you. If you’re cool with Google having so much information about you at its disposal, however, you’ll really love what it’s done with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, particularly the new Google Now on Tap feature. “It brings together so many of Google’s talents, including crowd-sourced intelligence, that it’s hard to imagine how Apple could match it,” she writes in her review. What’s so impressive about the new version of Google Now is the way that it recognizes context for just about everything you do on your phone. So for instance, if someone sends you a text message that contains an address and a time, Google Now on Tap will prompt you to use that information to create a calendar appointment.

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