Google Latitude demonstrated on iPhone’s Safari browser
By Will Park on Monday, June 1st, 2009 at 4:23 PM PST In Apple, Videos, iPhone, iPhone OS
In this day and age of location-aware smartphones, it’s almost scary how closely we can “follow” friends, family and even internet strangers. Even scarier is how Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s friend-tracking service, Google Latitude, makes it even easier to spy on your friends. And, it looks like Google Latitude support is coming to the iPhone with the launch of iPhone OS 3.0!
Google showed off the iPhone OS 3.0 Safari browser with built-in support for Latitude’s real-time friend-tracking during a Google I/O keynote. Slashgear’s video shows Google Latitude running on the iPhone Safari browser, confirming that the new Safari will play nice with the “W3C” geo-location API. That basically means the next-generation iPhone OS will allow the web browser to determine the user’s location, and use that information to update location-aware services like Google Latitude (and paves the way for turn-by-turn GPS navigation).
But wait, there’s more. As more iPhone developers make use of the iPhone OS 3.0’s geo-location support, we’re going to see some really impressive LBS (location-based services) applications hitting the App Store. We can’t wait!
[Via: Slashgear]
Well Google loves to demonstrate the LATITUDE technology, but the real truth of this technology is, that the quality is simply not there. Check out this article for some real experience with Google Latitude:
http://blog.hungrymobile.com/2009/06/the-google-latitude-really-useless-software/