Google+ for iPhone Takes App Store by Storm

Google+ for iPhone slay Apple's App Store a mere 24 hours ago but it's being downloaded like wildfire as it presently sitting atop the heap as the most popular free app gettable from iTunes. This is big tidings considering Google+ is nonetheless invitation-only and only has 18 million users so far, compared to Facebook's 750 million. That said, Google+ users ass now upload contacts from Outlook and Mackintosh address books (not Facebook, though), which may upshot in even bigger Google+ adoption numbers.

Mobile Google+ early users are lauding features such as the app's push notifications for updates so when someone comments on one of your posts or sends you a subject matter from a Powwow chat you can see it happening your iPhone without having to undecided the app. The app's photo viewer also includes an uploader that lets people grab shots from their speech sound's camera.

Some features from the desktop Google+ wear't even translate to the app experience. CNET's Josh Lowensohn points come out of the closet that "there's no picture chat option to make employment of the multiuser telecasting hangouts sport, even if you're on an iPhone 4 with treble cameras. Also, the Circles organizing is just a big number of contacts, versus the drag-and-drop experience you'd get connected the background. This makes organizing large groups of contacts more punishing but is understandable, apt the smaller amount of screen real estate."

Initially, some users complained the app was buggy and frequently crashed but Google has already released a lightning-fast update to take stabilize it.

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