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the friend tracking feature seems similar to Glympse, which I've used a lot: http://www.glympse.com/ http://www.glympse.com/ sharing your location for a set t
by joelanman 15y ago
the friend tracking feature seems similar to Glympse, which I've used a lot:
http://www.glympse.com/ http://www.glympse.com/
sharing your location for a set time is really useful
- gurkendoktor 15y agoI guess with all the toddlers supposedly owning iPods/iPhones/iPads, this has some valid use cases. But actively supporting personal surveillance systems seems like a weird move to me after the media hubbub about the location cache.
- evgen 15y agoYes, this is something people legitimately want. There are lots of occasions where I will go somewhere with friends/spouse and want to wander but occasionally sync up or know where someone else is. It sure beats SMSing "where R U" messages back and forth.
- gurkendoktor 15y agoI guess I edited my posting while your were answering, sorry about that. I clarified that I am actually more worried about the public reaction to this rather than legitimate use cases. Not really worried, just, why not leave it at a third party app? To answer my own question, Apple's solution has probably both more polish and more lock-in power, just as with iMessage vs WhatsApp & Co.
- FireBeyond 15y ago"The MBA, which has fundamentally changed the way people think about computers"... Err, no, I really don't believe it has.
- baggachipz 15y agoDamn, I have never heard of glympse. I actually made my own app for this six months ago: http://l.oc8.me http://l.oc8.me . Glad I'm not going to spend time creating native versions, and can move on to my next pet project. :)
- Gormo 15y agoI actually like your implementation better. It's like a minimap from an RPG that shows the location of party members.
- wanorris 15y agoThe killer feature Glympse appears to have in comparison with iOS 5: it's cross platform. Not everyone you're going to want to sync with will have an iPhone or iPad.
- rodh257 15y agoI've got an app that does real time location sharing: http://convoyapp.net/ http://convoyapp.net/ aimed at people driving in groups. I wonder how well this location sharing feature will compete against it, and if it makes it obsolete?