14 DAY TRIAL // Google+, the new social networking service from Google, is coming iOS users’ way by means of a native iPhone app that’s currently being tested by Apple’s App Store review board.
As the Mountain View search giant announced Google+ last month, Apple fanatics soon discovered a reference to a pending iPhone app, spawning multiple reports that said Google+ was coming to iOS.
The only problem was we didn’t know when. Now we do.
Well, sort of, because Apple’s approval process is as unpredictable as the hadron collisions at CERN.
But one Google employee, Erica Joy, has posted a message on her Google+ profile to confirm that their iPhone app is currently pending Apple’s approval:
“For my iPhone using friends: the Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to the App store (no not today, sometime prior to today) and is awaiting approval,” she wrote, according to Cultofmac.
In the meanwhile, users can fire up the Google+ web app at m.plus.google.com and get acquainted with the service whose key features include:
- Share your thoughts and location; - Instantly upload your photos and videos as you take them; - Get updates from your circles in the stream; - Check in to a place; - Make plans on-the-go with group messaging; - View posts from people around you.
When announcing the new service, Google said in a blog post “We’d like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. We want to make Google better by including you, your relationships, and your interests. And so begins the Google+ project.”
“From close family to foodies, we found that people already use real-life circles to express themselves, and to share with precisely the right folks.”
“So we did the only thing that made sense: we brought Circles to software. Just make a circle, add your people, and share what’s new—just like any other day,” Google explained.
It is also worth noting that the new service was designed by Andy Hertzfeld, one of the key designers who worked on the original Macintosh interface.