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Sounds like a security issue to me.

They also serve up a regular HTML site. You can try it out in Firefox and other browsers. It even takes advantage of the location API available in modern browsers allowing you to locate yourself and check in via your laptop/desktop.

I think they're completely fine with it. Foursquare has been extremely open about how people use their API and this is what their API is for. In the end I don't think they care how people are checking in. They're still gathering useful location information for businesses which is their real value add.

Thought experiment. Good choice of words, I think the post was intended to take it to the extreme just to provoke some interesting thoughts on the new language.

Legal agreements will be interpreted differently and its important for them to spell out these ambiguities. For instance, I don't think "originally written" is defined anywhere in the document. If it were a really thorough legal document they'd probably define that somewhere. Right now its completely up for interpretation.

Gravity needs to be just a little stronger.

One of the most interesting posts I've read so far regarding the whole apple/adobe nonsense.

Keep working on it. If they launch before you, read the comments in the store and see how it's doing, what are its shortcomings, etc. I think this type of thing easily happens all the time. Rarely is there an idea that someone else hasn't thought of.