Apple Moved Location Services In-House With iPad and iOS 4

[pika2000]

It's a very complex issue I don't think you can just narrow it to market flaw, since Apple was not force to sign such a contract. they chose to make it that way, and that is also one of the aspet, I still can install the apps I want, or access my phone to use it as USB hardrive, or something as simple as to chose which app i want running on the background.

Look at AT&T Android phones. You cannot side-load apps. Look at Motorola Android phones. You cannot use custom ROM. Heck, you cannot even apply a standard Android OS update for any of those non-N1 phones unless you root and use a custom ROM. You have to wait for each individual updates from the respective OEMs/carriers.

Yes, Android gives freedom, but it's a misconception that Android gives freedom to users. That's not the case. Android gives freedom to OEMs and carriers, to do whatever they want with an advance smartphone OS, for free. Carriers were really scared when Apple came out a smartphone OS where Apple is in complete control of the OS instead of them. They were afraid that it might start a trend of the control moving away from them. Android is a blessing, putting the control back to the carriers.

Oh, by the way, jailbreak for iOS4 is out. So you can do whatever you said you wanted to do above.

 

[neyo]

I've noticed on my iPad and iPhone I am no plotted as being in Norwich, rather than Manchester. It would probably take me 5hrs to drive to Norwich, to give a fair idea of distance.

Does anyone know how I can have this fixed? It leaves my iPad and MacBook Pro crippled interms of LBS.

I've submitted my WiFi hotspot to Skyhook, but based on this news, that would be the database serving this data.

Any advice would be greatly welcomed!