Wildlife reserve spotted inside Snow Leopard
A couple of articles recently going around about how some new location/mapping functionality is expected to be baked into the new Apple Mac OS X (aka Snow Leopard) including one this morning from AppleInsider.com. Essentially it looks like the core location capabilities from iPhone SDK will now become part of the core operating system for Mac PCs as well, which will likely use wi-fi to do the position determination (think Skyhook).
So what does this mean? Well hopefully more and more tools and applications you enjoy on your PC will now find it easier to integrate the location dimension. On one level it will be like a dynamic location cookie for browser based vertical “finding” application like Yelp, Fandango, and any other web service that could benefit from location awareness, which would be handy indeed. But given the fact that most PC users are probably teathered to one place where they hang out a lot like their home or office, any probably already have their zip code being cookied by these service already, the upside for that sort of stuff seems limited.
One of the cooler things that does come to mind would be integration into the calendar and scheduler like what Julian Bourne has developed with ProxPro. Not only would your calendar show meetings blocked off, but they could include buffer times to account for travel time and alerts to tell you when you need to leave for your next meeting given traffic conditions and travel distance. Or maybe you could have an email alerts sent to clients with automatic ETA embedded when you’re stuck in traffic to let them know where you are and your situation and that your running late, although that seems more like a mobile phone thing.
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Ben, Thank you for the kind words and mentioning Proxpro. This month (Feb 09) Proxpro will release an all new version of award winning Prompt, a comprehensive GPS solution to help professionals arrive on time every time. Prompt is automated, Prompt is precise and Prompt predicts the future for road warriors.
All the best,
Julian Bourne
Proxpro Inc.
Taking the guesswork out of punctuality