Vic Gundotra Forced To Release Beautiful New Google+ App For iOS After Losing A Round Of Golf To Tim Cook

(2:42 pm PDT, May 9th 2012)

Vic Gundotra Forced To Release Beautiful New Google+ App For iOS After Losing A Round Of Golf To Tim Cook

Yes, it’s true — well, at least the part about iOS getting a beautiful Google+ app update before Android. The only logical explanation I could come up with for this travesty is that Vic lost a bet during a friendly game of golf with Tim. At least that’s the story I’m telling myself as I weep in a dark corner.

Kidding aside, the new Google+ app looks beautiful, and although iOS users get to use it now, it will be coming to Android soon enough — and is supposed to include a few extra surprises for us Android folks (that won’t win me back Vic! — Okay, maybe it will).

The new Google+ app features a new gorgeous stream that simply oozes simplicity and beauty. With crisper fonts, larger profile pics and a friendlier homescreen, your post photos and articles will look better than ever.

Google also added overlays, gradients and other visual elements to make the stream easier to scan and more pleasing to the eyes. Google also claims to have added more fun and updated the performance with:

  • Conversations that fall into view as you move forward and backward in time
  • Optical cues (like parallax) that help the mind linger on individual posts
  • Important actions like +1 now float atop the stream, making it easy to endorse all your favorites

You don’t have to take my word for it, just look at this thing.

If you’re an iOS user, you can grab the latest Google+ update by following the App Store link below. The rest of you can go complain to Vic on his Google+ Page.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fernando-Teixeira/1424104894 Fernando Teixeira

    very good!!! now what needs a redesign is the app icon, I think it is terrible!

  • http://twitter.com/hypothesard Hypothesard

    ClickHoring Much?

  • whodakat

    So, did he really lose a round of golf or are you just making this up?  Seems like your making it up, and then using the headline to get your clicks.  

    Your on a slippery slope sir.

  • Oskar Sørensen

    Please don’t give your articles misleading headlines.

  • WardC

    Too bad Google+ is a “members-only” club, I’m still waiting for my invite. By now, really, I’ve lost interest in even joining at all.

    • Lee Jarratt

      What?! You can sign up to Google+ if you want, or by using your Google account and ‘upgrading’ to Google+. The service has been open to the public for many months now..

  • Anthony

    It’s also kind of telling that even Google develops for iOS first, Android second.

  • frustrated999

    Like the prior version of the app it stayed on my ipad2 only long enough to find out that it does not work well on iPad. The text looks blocky, poor utilization of the iPad screen as well I can not see any way of editing my posts after they have been posted. Going to stick with using web interface via safari.

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Vincent MessinaVincent Messina has been writing and evangelizing about Android for the past three years. When he's not playing the part of "Loki" to his 5 and 4-year-old, he can be found here, covering all things Android. He adamantly believes Android has the greatest community around and can be harassed at any of the following locations: Google+, Twitter.

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