Comments on: What iPhone needs: Core Location Daemon

By: Whacko

Whacko — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:38:08 +0000

@bob

What the author of this article is talking about is not just some app made by a 3rd party developer, but a service made by Apple. The ‘daemons are forbidden’ argument doesn’t apply here.

This Apple-made deamon would send your location to apple. Apple would then distribute this information to ONLY the applications / services you have granted premission to use that data.

I kinda like this idea.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:32:29 +0000

Your an idiot. All daemons are forbidden for essentially the same reason. Control of the OS. Daemons could intercept and redirect other applications and native OS behavior.

Would it be nice? yeah, but your argument for GPS is bull. Either have daemons or dont. What prevents a GPS daemon from doing something else?

By: Milo

Milo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:03:51 +0000

The major barrier to this sort of thing has not been privacy, or even traffic overhead in the network.

It’s power. Finding the phone’s location periodically in the background requires accessing radio towers or at least bringing up the WiFi interface, etc.