Apple’s Snow Leopard may know where you are
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Apple’s upcoming Snow Leopard operating system will include location awareness and multi-touch capabilities. Or so it seems.
Citing an anonymous source, AppleInsider says that Snow Leopard, aka Mac OS X version 10.6, will include the CoreLocation framework introduced last March in the iPhone 2.0 SDK.
The iPhone runs a slimmed-down version of OS X. CoreLocation is a rare framework that exists on the iPhone OS and not – yet – in the version of OS X that powers Apple’s Macs.
CoreLocation works with the iPhone’s built-in GPS, cell phone-tower triangulation, and Wi-Fi positioning data provided by Skyhook Wireless to determine the device’s location – a feature Apple defines as “geographical location technology.”
Location-awareness is the New Hotness in many an application, from Google’s recently announced Latitude service to the Places feature in Apple’s new iPhoto ’09 and iPhone apps such as Loopt and AroundMe.Read More>>
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