I have not seen the actual keynote video, but in the MacRumors live
blog it seemed as Steve Jobs said "it knows where you are" or
something when he looked for a Starbucks. But no specific mention of
how it knew that.
Allan
On Jan 10, 2007, at 09:55, Marcus Kirsch wrote:
If any of that is true, then it will definitely leaking in the next
few months, apart from that for urban projects, there was a company
a while ago offering GPS-like positioning through trigonometrical
use of surrounding wireless antennas.
Sorry, I cant supply the link, it's been nearly two years ago I think.
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Joe Germuska wrote:
So, it seems to be underreported in the coverage of the Apple
iPhone, but I've seen a couple of references to it having some
kind of positioning technology. Actually, a photo caption in the
Chicago Tribune's "Red Eye" tabloid says that it's actually GPS.
I had guessed that because of cost it might be some lower
precision technology (but I don't claim to know that much about
the tech details or costs, hence my interest in getting opinions
from members of this list...)
Whether or not it's GPS, it seems like this is worthy of more
mention. It certainly looks like someone has finally integrated
positioning with an interface that satisfies me in an overall
package that is worth while (a bargain, even).
I know all about Apple secrecy, but wondering if people know (or
just want to wildly speculate) any more about this...
Joe
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