It's only Android 4 and higher.
Awful.
You can bet that they will release an iOS app in the coming weeks. As for people on Android 2.x, buy a new phone or yell at your phone manufacturer for not upgrading you to 4.x.
Android 4.x brought some pretty massive changes to APIs and behavior that it is not worth Google's time to continue to support it. They would rather try and push as many people as they can to 4.x.
The posted url opened and worked fine for me on this ipad.
Re:Google Keep
by jamesaguilar on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:10PM
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Did Android even have lockscreen widgets before 4? I thought there were only third party lockscreens with widgets before then.
It would seem that they were released in 4.2: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.2.html
Re:Google Keep
by philsheard on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:30PM
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Anyone know whether this is an innovative use of lockscreen widgets by Google, or is this something that's not openly available to other Android devs?
Wondering whether is just a clever app by Google or something that makes it difficult for Evernote et al to compete.
Re:Google Keep
by jamesaguilar on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @06:41PM
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In the comment you are replying to, I linked to an announcement that describes how to make this sort of widget.
Regardless of the product you use, searchable cloud-synced notes that you can quickly access are a life changer, even if they're just text files. It's like direct memory augmentation; I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to have it. "The weakest ink is better than the strongest memory" and all that. The trick is to make a workflow for yourself that allows for writing stuff down now and finding/organizing it later. I find OneNote + SkyDrive works pretty well - it ties you to the proprietary OneNote format, but the features you get from it are powerful, and as long as you have the client software and a place to put the files (preferably on the web), no one can "shut the service down". Perhaps I'll give this one a try though.