Apple Plans iGroups: New iPhone Social App
Apple Plans iGroups: New iPhone Social App
Posted 03/19/2010 at 5:38am
| by Paul Lilly
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Apple seems to be getting pretty serious about social networking. For the fourth time this year, the Cupertino company plans to release a social networking app for the iPhone, the latest of which it will call iGroups.
As Apple explains it, iGroups will be a new service that will work on your iPhone and probably with MobileMe. As the name implies, the app allows groups of friends or colleagues stay in touch with each other to share information, such as during a concert, convention, or other event. In addition, users without GPS-abilities will be able to triangulate their position using the positions of other GPS-enabled devices in their group.
PatentlyApple.com says the app works with a highly sophisticated cryptographic key generation system, which should help alleviate any privacy and security concerns.
More here.
Image Credit: PatentlyApple.com
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Peanut Fox
March 19, 2010 at 10:32am
Kinda sounds like Google Wave. I have to ask why is your location required? Why not just be able to share this information with anyone you wish to and let it be.
If you dig too deep into this, it becomes a glorifiyed text messenger or dumbed down email service. It's not a bad thing, but from the limited information I don't understand why anyone would use this.
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