How is this going to work?
I’ve just heard in the All Points Blog podcast, that the iPhone SDK doesn’t allow access to the dock connector. That means some third party hardware developers, like Gomite and their locoGPS module, have to find such weird workarounds like transmitting a signal from the plugged-in GPS module over WiFi back to the iPhone application. Sounds pretty complicated (and battery intensive) to me.
By releasing Core Location as part of the iPhone SDK, Apple is actively promoting LBS on the iPhone. GPS or no GPS on mobile devices isn’t just black and white, there are shades of gray like A-GPS for instance. While cell tower triangulation might provide sufficient accuracy for some LBS (“find pizza nearby”) in urban areas, for others, like navigation, it doesn’t.
Seriously, why would you want to disable navigation on a mobile device with that screen and user interface?
To me, it doesn’t make sense. [via GPSLodge]
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