Comments on: Google Patents Their Own Smart Action Technology, Location Based Settings Coming to Android?

By: Anthony Anobile

Anthony Anobile — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:17:00 +0000

lol ik…and plus they have won 6 straight! lol the pic is so inaccurate

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:29:00 +0000

Yeah, but it’s just never the same with 3rd party. There will be vastly more devs who implement for a native feature than who would for a 3rd party app.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 05:21:00 +0000

Tasker and local allow developersc to create plug-ins for their apps. Smart actions doesn’t use GPS to detect my location and there is no wifi at my work, so it doesn’t work for me. If google’s

By: Stephen Clagett

Stephen Clagett — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:15:00 +0000

Location services are typically on, unless you specifically say that you do not wish to use google’s location services.

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0000

WTF?

By: LiiIiikEaBau5

LiiIiikEaBau5 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:56:00 +0000

Take it easy ppl, Majel, 3D map and loads of new stuff will be announced together with Jelly Beam!

By: EC8CH

EC8CH — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:52:00 +0000

that should probably fire off a smart action of some sort to deal with hell freezing over.

(btw…I’m from MN)

By: David Hayden

David Hayden — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Hello Nexus One

By: sk3litor

sk3litor — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:26:00 +0000

I think its great but wouldn’t having GPS and location on all the time hurt the battery more than the actions could potentially save?

By: Michael Quinlan

Michael Quinlan — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Even with Google’s resources, I can’t see any built-in functionality equaling that of Tasker. The only advantage it would have would be same as what Smart Actions has – it wouldn’t be a user app and wouldn’t suffer from the same restrictions as apps like Tasker do.

By: Apostrafee

Apostrafee — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Haha same here that is the first thing I saw! Guess whoever designed that was a Twins fan

By: Nelly547

Nelly547 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:09:00 +0000

Even worse, they are losing to the Twins!

By: Chris VanAnden

Chris VanAnden — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:51:00 +0000

Is there a reason that this graphic has to show the twins beating the Yankees 13 to 1? I’m Yankees fan (I live in NY) and this was the first thing I even noticed.

By: br_hermon

br_hermon — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:51:00 +0000

I probably wouldn’t use this to replace tasker. Tasker has SO MANY options, Pent (the Developer) pretty much covers every nook and cranny of Android. There’s no way Google would be that comprehensive in standard Android. Talk about confusing for the average user. If Google had “Advanced mode” well then that could be a different story. However using Google built in would pretty much guarantee telling Google EVERYTHING about me and my where abouts to get this to function properly. That said, using Tasker ensures that I can get that same functionality, but not throwing it Googles way to add to their database of my personal info. If nothing else, keep it secure, encrypted and buy out Tasker (So Pent gets his much deserved piece of the pie for his INCREDIBLE work.)

By: Jeff Helget

Jeff Helget — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Exactly what I was thinking on the Majel part…