<i>> It has also conveniently been scheduled for “retirement.” In an announcement dated April 8, just a couple of weeks ago, Google said it will retire iGoogle on November 1, 2013. The reason? A Google Now-like experience on mobile.</i><p>Take off your conspiracy hat. The iGoogle shutdown wasn't announced "just a couple of weeks ago"; it was announced last July:<p><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/spring-cleaning-in-summer.html" rel="nofollow">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/spring-cleaning-in-su...</a>
(Obligatory "as a former Google fan" header)<p>When Google isn't making my skin crawl / fists clench in fury lately, they are making me scratch my head.<p>Why on earth isn't Google Now, easily one of the most amazing things they've done recently and hugely competitive give how much big-data crunching and user profiling it requires, available as a widget on Android? Why is there no Now api that other apps can push cards to?<p>Why is there no Google Now launcher?<p>Now still feels like some interesting parallel world on Android (while Google+ feels like some uninteresting parallel world everywhere else).
Meanwhile I can't see it at all on my Android 2.3 device, even though I have had voice search on there for years, all the clever stuff seems to be taking place server-side, and I already get push notifications for calendar etc..