Comments on: Google Finally Provides Latitude to iPhone Users — Yeah, it’s a WebApp

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:09:48 +0000

My husband, my mother, & I use the “Find My Friend” app. It gives you a map in real time. I can watch my husband turn by turn on the moving map. You have to allow the “find” each time by clicking accept so no stalker worries. You can even publish the results to facebook.

By: Justin Wang

Justin Wang — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:20:08 +0000

I am disappointed with web Latitude. It has very few useful features, sluggish and reflects Google vs. Apple clash. I think Apple wants to make money with apps after all. They happily accepted Pocketlife into their apps store a couple of weeks ago, a similar app to latitude – http://www.pocketlife.com – it costs a little but that works just fine and has a quite nice UI to it. Why always go with Google, when there r good startups out there?

By: iPhoneGal

iPhoneGal — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:52:04 +0000

Completly useless! I've been waiting and waiting for this. My friends with their Nokia's do this great, my brothers Android does this great, even peole I know using Windows Mobile (yuk!) are doing this fine. This really is the last straw! Apple iPhone is an over hyped pile of rubbish!! I regret buying the 3G, and with only a few months to go on plan I can't wait to get rid of it. Complete junk, and anyone who tries to convince themselves otherwise then explain your way out of the latitude disaster. Very very disappointed Apple / Google. I have to keep safari open and at the front all the time?!? No one else has this problem. The app sits there in the background!

A Complete failure all round here!

As for battery life!!!!

Nokia(Symbian) has no problem.

Blackberry has no problem.

Android has no problem.

WINDOWS MOBILE (AGGGHHH - YUK!!) has no problem.

I know, my friends all use these devices and have no problem with battery life. Apparently it's just the iPhone that would have an issue with battery life, poor me, stupid mug for believing the hype and buying an iPhone. People laugh at me now, poor Justin with his outmoded iPhone. Here's a suggestion for Apple - stop trying to be different!! Either you can do this exactly the same as all other major phone platforms.... OR YOU CAN'T, and what I'm suggesting is that the battery on the iPhone is indeed junk, the O/S is junk, and anything that resembles mult-tasking (see 1980's dictionary) flattens the battery in no time. Maybe it's about time Apple admits that the iPhone isn't the technological wonder we were all convinced it was. After all, if a Windows Mobile phone can multi task, and send hourly updates from Google maps, and also have Exchange push email running, on a 3G network, and the battery lasts 3 days, then Apple has done something wrong. (The phone is a Samsung Blackjack II).

By: i_am_rufus

i_am_rufus — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:48:20 +0000

Hey Icebike:

If you’re going to make a comment, base it on fact or experience rather than useless and groundless personal opinion. Latitude is a “tracking aid” not a live location tracking system. The updates are so inaccurate and so infrequent, I could be standing right next to the person and not know it. AT BEST, and I really mean AT BEST, like once in a blue moon, accuracy might be down to the nearest 100 square meters, and in a built-up area that’s still useless. 99% of the time, accuracy is something like nearest square KM – yep, now that’s going to help be stalk someone. Also, updates are instant nor live. It’s like every 10 minutes. So I know that someone was in a 1 square KM region 10 minutes ago – every start panicking now! Latitude is a tracking aid. It tells me that someone I know is actually at the shops the same time as me, or is in town visiting, and we can hook up. That’s it.

As for never being able to stop someone seeing me? You click on them, you select “hide from this user”, you delete them. Gone forever – take a whole 10 seconds, but you’d know this if you bother to read any of the documentation about it. So how about next time before you start mouthing off pretending to know something about nothing, you just don’t, or learn to read. People like you who just come up with opinions based on no facts whatsoever are what’s wrong with the world today. I bet you vote too.

By: icebike

icebike — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:02:07 +0000

Stalk Me - Kill Me...

I'm waiting for the first slaughter enabled by Latitude.

Friends may Come. Friends may Go. Friends may peter out you know. But they'll stalk you thru think and thin. Peter out, or Peter In.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:07:52 +0000

“Failed to add friends”, this is what I get when trying to add any email address. It seems cool, but what am I doing wrong? Verified format, etc, yet nothing works.

By: Caballera

Caballera — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:32:53 +0000

How can you add pictures to your ‘friends’. I’m using a person on my contact list and it doesn’t show their picture which I have in my contact list.

By: Pierluigi

Pierluigi — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:24:54 +0000

I think this is possibly the best solution, for now, instead of an app with PNS. Safari multitasks for real and supports geolocation, you just need to press the home button and Latitude keeps going on. Sure, its still a battery drainer.

By: AnteL0pe

AnteL0pe — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:06:53 +0000

@Wesley this is possible in any webpage with a similar map inlay. One finger on the map moves the map not the page. Two fingers would pinch/zoom.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:07:41 +0000

It’s a web app but it’s the best and quickest webapp I’ve ever seen!! But latitude has no use for me. Most of my friends don’t have GPS phones and I don’t see what the real point of it all is.