"We want to connect people to personalized information at the moment it’s useful," reads the mission statement of Aviate, a replacement launcher for Android available today in private beta. It sounds almost exactly like the tagline of Google Now, and that’s no coincidence — Aviate co-founders Paul Montoy-Wilson and William Choi used to work for Google. While Montoy-Wilson worked for Google Play and Choi worked on search, the two had of course heard of Google Now, their employer’s best effort at predicting what information you’ll need next. But, the duo thought they could do a better job at it.
To the founders of Aviate, you shouldn’t even need to open Google Now. The apps and information you need should already be sitting on...
Source: The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/15/4839162/aviate-android-home-screen-app-google-now
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