Google Latitude app for iPhone

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23 points·richardburton··9 comments

Why are iPhone 3G users left out?

Besides the background updating thing I don't see any features or reasons why it can't run on a 3G.

You hit it exactly on the head - background updating. We can only assume that Google want to start it's life with a consistant feature set. Your 3G is a casualty of that.

It is available on the iPhone 3G: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-latitude-app...

Sorry, but where in the article do you read that?

The article says: "...the Google Latitude app will run on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPod touch (3rd/4th generation)...."

Will google catch up with foursquare?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=foursquare%2C+google+latitude...

According to xkcd (since I don't have any other information) Latitude is substantially larger already: http://xkcd.com/802_large/

I liked the most upvoted comment on Reddit:

"Latitudie is still better; fun to see google playing catchup. :)"

Of course, I'm biased.

Why are you biased?

Is Latitudie worth $2.49 over the free Google version? The free one seems to work really well.

I'm biased because I'm a Googler and have been dogfooding the app for a while now.

I guess I'm biased because I wrote Latitudie :). I haven't really had time to test the Google Latitude app, since I've been setting up a bunch of servers for my next project for the whole day, so I can't tell you exactly the differences between the two apps. However, I'll be writing a blog post about that in the coming days.

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