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.
Followed by a dozen paragraphs of pointless speculation.
> 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...