Comments on: Google Launches Latitude for iPhone

By: Google lance Latitude pour iPhone | Romain Boulay . Ingénieur développement informatique mobile

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:23:08 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:25:11 +0000

It’s extremely likely that Latitude will become an option in the Maps application.

Think about it.

Apple says to Google… Please don’t make an app…make a web app in the meantime and we’ll include in the Maps app in the future.

Google replies… OK, deal.

Apple probably doesn’t want an app floating around that duplicates future functionality of the Maps app.

By: ray

ray — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:20:43 +0000

When Google launched Latitude for Android-based phones, iPhone (http://en.oboulo.com/the-iphone-63191.html) users everywhere pined for Latitude implementation on their beloved device. It might disappoint some users. That’s because Google chose a web app implementation of the location-aware social networking service, forgoing a native app with push notifications.

By: Steve in Denmark

Steve in Denmark — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:31:59 +0000

It works, to an extent here in Denmark.

If I go direct to Latitude, from a web browser, I can enter co-ordinates manually. If I go from the iPod Touch, as I don’t have location services enabled (none of the Apps can ever (ever) find me on Wi-Fi and I really don’t know why location services are even on the iPod Touch in the first place), there’s no way even of manually setting position.

However, if from the browser, I then add the Latitude to iGoogle (or whatever it’s called) lo! It appears. However, negotiate away from iGoogle and come back, then there’s a panel saying that Latitude isn’t available in my area.

It’s all moot anyway as I don’t know any one who is on, or gives a flying f%€k about someone finding them on it anyway.

By: Google lance Latitude pour iPhone | Romain Boulay . Ingénieur développement informatique mobile

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:12:09 +0000

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By: B Lewis

B Lewis — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:11:53 +0000

Apple should have let them embed Latitude into the Maps app and allowed for either push or fetch to update your location since the iPhone can’t do background processes. But eh. I’ll still give it a try.