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Let’s celebrate the death of the iPhone NDA

If you haven’t got the wonderful news so far: the iPhone NDA has finally been lifted :)

This is of course a big step forward into an open world with open software for the iPhone – at least I hope so. But I’d like to take this chance and blog about something, that bothered me quite a while.. The locator on the iPhone.

The point is, the locator is not so easy to use as one might think. There is only one way to access it – and you always get every locations, be it WiFi, GSM or GPS. That means that the Locator calls the callback functions multiple times. It tries to find the most accuracte position, and it tries not to return any less accurate positions.

There is this nice example included with the SDK. Did you use it? Poor you. It seemply doesn’t work :)

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Filed under: Information on October 1, 2008 at 7:52 pm by marc.
Tags: GottaGo, iPhone, locator, nda, open source