Google Now has been attaching itself to everything lately and now Chrome OS is expected to start integrating it along with a standalone Play Movies app. This news come from the joint Intel and Google press conference in San Fransisco which also played host to an army of new Chromebook announcements from various brands.
Mountain View’s VP of product management for Chromebooks, Caesar Sengupta, was the one to reveal these two upcoming changes to the Chrome OS. The voice-based Google Now service for mobile has been migrating to other platforms too. Take the last update which saw these card-based notifications hitting those using the Chrome browser on Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s OS X.
TechnoBuffalo reports Sengupta as saying that Google Now is ready for the Chrome OS as well as Chromebooks. The feature is not just set to be made available on new portable PCs running Google’s OS, but is sure to reach those units that have already been sold to customers across the globe. So it will land on laptops as a software update.
The second introduction is a standalone Play Movies app which will enable offline offline storage of content downloaded from Google’s marketplace. This will cover movies as well as TV programs and we expect the company will soon extend the same convenience to music in the future. Chromebooks are pretty low on storage, meaning you won’t be hoarding too much entertainment on them anyway.
The update bringing voice-based Google Now integration and the standalone Play Movies app to Chromebooks is set to to be released in the coming weeks, so eyes peeled.