While it wasinitially suggestedthat Google Latitude was rejected from the app memory to keep iPhone user from obnubilate it with Maps , this new patent demo that Apple might be working on their own friend- and ex - girlfriend - cover app .
https://gizmodo.com/google-latitude-for-iphone-is-a-lame-web-app-because-ap-5321583
9to5 Mac points out that the iPhone diagram seems to show a front - look camera , a feature that we’veseen beforein such patents and could well make it into the next iPhone .
https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-patent-points-at-next-gen-iphone-video-chat-a-5214572
An additional patent , filedhere , hint that location - based data could be station via text subject matter :
Location share-out : Abstract – geographical location datum is station from a first equipment to a second twist with a modified substance to signal the comportment of geographical location data link with the message . The message can admit ( or attach ) the geographical fix data or file , or the substance can include a connection to a meshwork - based resource which the second twist can use to obtain the geographic locating data . In some implementations , when a exploiter of the first gimmick views a locating on a map display of the first machine , a graphical exploiter user interface is presented to allow the substance abuser to pick out an alternative to apportion the geographic location with the second machine . The second gimmick receive geographical location data or a connexion from the first twist which can spark off a function display on the 2nd gadget showing the position of the first gadget and , optionally , the location of the second gadget .
A ramp up - in , location - based societal app for the iPhone makes consummate sentience . Apple said they did n’t want iPhone user to get Google Latitude confused with Maps , but it seems like they might not have wanted them to get it lost with their own location base app somewhere down the route . [ 9to5 Mac ]
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