[Geowanking] Bad news for those who wanted to see location-based apps on the iPhone...

[Mike Liebhold]

Iphone users,  don't necessarily have to expect to pay messaging charges 
for wifi net access on many free networks.




Jim Youll wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Mike Liebhold wrote:
>
>> This is not good news, but not a total disaster, although  developers 
>> will be denied access to the client hardware platform,  there is no 
>> reason why anyone can't develop amazing web-based  services 
>> accessible from  the iphone's built-in safari browser.
>
>
> ... provided your users are happy to pay data and other message-unit  
> charges for applications that could run happily off-network.
>
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>> My sole concern about the iphone as a platform for location based  
>> services, is how to programatically utilize unique MAC adresses of  
>> wifi access points for geolocation processing.  I am hoping that  
>> Apple willl at least expose some level of access to the wifi  
>> connection functions.
>>
>> - Mike
>
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