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Even shorter summary: for some reason or other, which may involve Apple, Google's Latitude was released as an iPhone webapp, and not in the App Store. Followed

by akamaka 17y ago

Even shorter summary: for some reason or other, which may involve Apple, Google's Latitude was released as an iPhone webapp, and not in the App Store. Followed by a dozen paragraphs of pointless speculation.

mcav 17y ago
It stated the reason on Google's blog: > After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles. http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-latitude-now-for-iphone.html http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-latitude-now...
- raganwald 17y ago
  It stated Google's claimed reason. Which may be "the" reason for some version of "the." However... Even Techcrunch would go on to say something like "We confirmed this account of events with several contacts within Apple and Google."
  - fromedome 17y ago
    Very funny.