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Why Apple Denied the Google Latitude App

Posted by Soulskill on from the what-a-coincidence dept.

awyeah writes "A recently revealed Apple patent looks remarkably similar to the functionality of Google Latitude, which Apple relegated to WebApp status earlier this year. Obviously if Apple is working on their own version of Google Latitude (or owns the IP rights to this functionality), they'd be hesitant to put an app with the same functionality on their devices from another company."

2 of 308 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I Smell Patent War by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean raises the question. Begging the question is a form of logical fallacy which basically means that you are assuming something is true/false in order to prove that it's true/false.

  2. Re:The evil of a closed platform by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's been pointed out before that Apple doesn't crackdown on jailbreakers

    You mean besides bricking jailbroken phones?

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