Itching to
replace Siri with Google Now on your iPhone? Well, you might have to wait a while longer.
TechCrunch reports that
Google (
GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday said that it was up to
Apple (
AAPL) on whether
Google’s voice-enabled personal assistant application would make its way to the App Store anytime soon. When asked about Google Now coming to iOS at the Google Big Tent Summit in India this week, Schmidt responded that “you’ll need to discuss that with Apple” because “Apple has a policy of approving or disapproving apps that are submitted into its store, and some of them they approve and some of them they don’t.” In other words, it sounds as though the company has submitted Google Now to Apple for approval and that it’s currently waiting to see whether it gets approved.
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