This is the signature feature in the Moto X—a way to access the Google Now service without turning on the phone, touching it or even taking it out of your pocket. Google Now not only does pretty much everything that Apple’s Siri does—answers queries, schedules appointments, and plays the song you request—but draws on a vast wealth of data to act as an omniscient personal assistant. (Classic example: It will warn you to end a meeting because it knows that traffic is so snarled, you might not make your next one in time.) It also embodies the grand tradeoff that’s at the core of Google’s ambitions—in exchange for allowing Google to aggregate a bounty of your personal information, drawn from your inputs on multiple services, the company promises to make your life better. By building Google Now into the Moto X front and center, Motorola reveals its potential value to its owner. As Ron says, “This is a great example of Motorola shining a light, via our hardware capabilities, on software and services that Google has.”
Well, I use Gmail, Google Maps, Google Play Music, and Google Drive quite a bit. I will probably be using the phone to change channels and operate my Chromecast once it comes off of back-order.
If they got their Google Finance apps (and Google Finance in general) better I would move my portfolio monitoring to that site there from Yahoo. I will be cool to have individual stock information ready for me to look at every morning while it is still charging.
However, Google seriously needs to change their marketing photo though. I thought the screen was crazed or something from the phone being dropped. I figured this was Wired's way of making the phone look like it has "broken out" or some other graphic design decision. Actually it is a red white and blue painted wooden wall that has suffered weather-damage. I think the little Android robot-guy would work better as a wallpaper.
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