Will Google Laditude Be Pushing?

[thisisarcadia]

It says it will display real time locations of your friends so does that mean it will be pushing all day your location? won't that kill the battery?

 

[vizkiz]

Am I thinking the wrong thing about push notifications?
I am believing that push notifications are sent from the server to your phone. So essentially your phone is receiving, just like an SMS. I don't think it should affect battery life that much.

 

[kas23]

I don't think Google Latitude will be via push. Push notifications are just that - little messages. They really can't push anything besides that (like your position on a map).

 

[garethjs]

Only mobileme's FindMyiPhone runs in the background and allows u to be able to pull a direction from their web interface.

Google might use push notification to get the user to open the app so that the location can be recorded.

 

[TheMBC]

I'm pretty sure Google Latitude is going to be/is going to be a Web App for the iPhone, which aren't capable of using the PNS.