Google launched its latest attempt at social networking yesterday dubbed Google+, a service which is said to focus on sharing content with groups of people that you place into “circles.” At the moment the service is available by invitation only, but by the time it goes public, there may be an official iPhone app for you to run it on.
On the Google+ information page, there is a list of options for accessing the network from your mobile device. There’s already a native application for Android smartphones, but Google clearly states that an app for the iPhone is “coming soon.”
If you have a Google+ invite and you’d like to access the service from your iPhone already, you can use the web app located at m.google.com/app/plus. But look out for the official iPhone app in the App Store soon.
First impressions of Google’s new social network seem promising, and the service looks set to succeed where Google Buzz eventually failed. The new service was designed by Andy Hertzfeld, one of the key designed behind the original Macintosh software.
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23 responses to “Official Google+ iOS App is Heading to the iPhone”
Google+ lifetime: 6 – 12 months ? kkkk
Let’s see… I see some potential…
i like how they copied the facebook check in logo…just added a plus sign to it
So many ideas, so little time, let’s just knock out another one. Google+, Wave, Buzz, Orkut…..
iOS? You’d think Google would focus on an app for their *own* OS, Android, first … /facepalm
As it shows in the screenshot above, the Android app is already available … /facepalm
If the app isn’t approved by the time the service gets rolled out to the public, someone better fire up the anti-trust engines.
If the app isn’t approved by the time the service gets rolled out to the public, someone better fire up the anti-trust engines.
And in six months the few who downloaded it will be deleting it.
We need a Facebook competitor and despite what haters and uninformed skeptics are gonna say I am looking forward to my invite.
Touche, my bad
I don’t think so. It will be more like: ‘In six months, everyone will be quitting facebook and start downloading google+’