I saw what you were replaying to and my statement still stands what is your point? You can get a used iphone for next to nothing, the GPS still works in it just fine....
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I saw what you were replaying to and my statement still stands what is your point? You can get a used iphone for next to nothing, the GPS still works in it just fine....
No, now you can know when girlfriend A is getting close so you can girlfriend B out.
Same when Mom is in the 'hood and you would rather not be at home
You have greatly misunderstood the functionality.
Go back and watch the IOS 4 keynote again. Background location services use cell tower triangulation so as to not destroy battery life.
I love all of the people on here crying about how Google Latitude will lead to people losing their privacy, ex-girlfriends stalking them, wives divorcing them, etc. when Find My iPhone can basically do the exact same thing. But, FMiP is "innovative" instead. 
Officer:" Ok, your Iphone tells me where the IPHONE has been. Not where you've been !"
Hmm.. nice try.
This thread is lol for the number of people freaking out about this app...causing divorces...lol.
If you don't want someone to know where you are obviously you wouldn't be using this at all now would you?
If you don't want someone to know where you are obviously you wouldn't be using this at all now would you?
Wrong, you do not need an iPhone or even this app to use Latitude, you can set it up all on a computer if you want, please educate yourselves. I suppose the concept BJB is getting at is correct, users do have to configure Latitude to use latitude, but that seems obvious.
You are partly correct. Try walking around all day with the Tom Tom app running in the background. You'll drain your battery before lunch time.
They only reason girlfriend A is nearby is because she's looking at your location on her iPhone.
I've just installed this app on my iPhone. I think it will drain the phone's battery given the GPS arrow is constantly shown at the top of the display.
My experience is that when that arrow is shown the GPS antenna is on, draining battery faster. When I disabled the background update option on the app the GPS went off and so the location service.
On the blackberry works just fine with triangulation, and it only turns on the GPS when you actually use the app.
You just need more girlfriends. If you manage to juggle more than a few, they aren't smart enough to figure out this app in the first place.
If they mine their live data they can probably figure out where you are even if you don't have this app installed!
When you let an app use your current location, because it's necessary for the task it performs, do you ever wonder who else is going to get that information or how long it will persist?
Not useless at all. Oh wait, doesn't Apple use location services in their apps as well? Why yes they do.
Don't think you're so special. No one cares what you do.
(its a joke. I care... I do... deeply...)
Every iPhone comes with Google Maps installed. They know where you are every time you use that.
Every time you Google search or use GMail they use GeoIP to figure out your general location (unless you porxy)...
Come on. You want to hide - ditch your cell phone all together.
Straw man. All iPhones have GPSs. There is no technical reason the app couldn't run on them.
Even if you don't use the friend sharing features, it would be useful as a companion to "Find my iPhone" since the history is stored at https://www.google.com/latitude/b/0/history/manage
You could see where your phone has been and if it's on the move.
You could see where your phone has been and if it's on the move.
I think this is awesome, and I would sometimes love to know where exactly people are. However, I would be worried about privacy... I'm sure people will find out how to hack into this one day, and then there you go: a free map of every expensive phone in town, with live updating locations. Plus, if you forget to turn it off, I'm sure you'll end up in weird situations where you lied about going somewhere and you ended up going somewhere else. It would just make me paranoid: "OMG did I turn it off?"
Or maybe they just know where you WERE the last time you tapped to map your current location.
I tried getting driving directions to an address in downtown Los Angeles the other day but the Google Map app couldn't find a route. I was puzzled at first, until I figured out that the last time I had it find my current location was when I was in Hawaii in November. The app assumed I was still there, and apparently you can't drive from Hawaii to Los Angeles!
