Comments on: Backwards compatibility of location-aware iPhone apps? http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2008/07/08/backwards-compatibility-of-location-aware-iphone-apps/ Sean Tierney's Blog Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: sandrar http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2008/07/08/backwards-compatibility-of-location-aware-iphone-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-373762 sandrar Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:32:50 +0000 http://67.106.82.230/2008/07/08/backwards-compatibility-of-location-aware-iphone-apps/#comment-373762 Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R. Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.

]]> By: sean http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2008/07/08/backwards-compatibility-of-location-aware-iphone-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-216794 sean Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:47:09 +0000 http://67.106.82.230/2008/07/08/backwards-compatibility-of-location-aware-iphone-apps/#comment-216794 via a conversation with Tom Bradford just now (one of our employees who has played with the SDK) - it IS implemented in such a way where the location-aware apps will work with the old phones. One of the glaring problems we discussed though was the fact that the geo-lookup via IP address trumps the cell tower triangulation when you have acquired a wifi hotspot. Apple should reverse this priority and make the more accurate cell tower method trump the IP method and use wifi ONLY as a last resort when no cell signal exists. Seems like a pretty simple software-level change to make. very cool to know that the LBS will work on older versions- i've found the cell tower triangulation to be surprisingly accurate depending on how good coverage is. sean via a conversation with Tom Bradford just now (one of our employees who has played with the SDK) – it IS implemented in such a way where the location-aware apps will work with the old phones.

One of the glaring problems we discussed though was the fact that the geo-lookup via IP address trumps the cell tower triangulation when you have acquired a wifi hotspot. Apple should reverse this priority and make the more accurate cell tower method trump the IP method and use wifi ONLY as a last resort when no cell signal exists. Seems like a pretty simple software-level change to make.

very cool to know that the LBS will work on older versions- i’ve found the cell tower triangulation to be surprisingly accurate depending on how good coverage is.
sean

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