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Fashion gets a digital upgrade with the Google Awareness API (googleblog.com)
1 point by happy-go-lucky on Feb 7, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


wow. time to give up android from google... replicant, here I come!

blog post promotes a new api on google proprietary android component that everyone must have to use the play store so apps can "[...] passively monitor each user's daily activity and lifestyle with their permission [heh. android permissions]. Where do you regularly eat out for dinner or hang out with friends? Are they more casual or formal meetups? What's the usual weather when you're outside? After the course of a week, the user's context signals [...]"




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