Apple announcement recap

[David Cake]

At 2:39 PM +0900 16/1/08, David Cake wrote:
>	I'm mentally translating this as 'most of the places where it 
>will be difficult for me to work out where I am by sight, such as 
>anywhere outside of a (US) dense city grid, it probably won't work 
>very well'.

	OK, so it works better than I thought it might.
	But still - when I say ''most of the places where it will be 
difficult for me to work out where I am by sight', you should bear in 
mind I am moving to Alice Springs on Monday, which is in the middle 
of a very big, very uninhabited desert, where I should think there 
will be many times where I will be out of range of any Wi-Fi at all 
(though there will be times when I am out of range of any Wi-Fi but 
without range of a cell tower).
	I think there is an issue here - the Skyhook stuff is always 
going to be a little less powerful than GPS in ways like this, though 
obviously cheaper as its software only. It would be great to have the 
choice, but given the limited number of iPhone models now or likely 
in the future, I'd say its almost certain that the Skyhook stuff will 
generally be sufficient justification not to add GPS at all. Not 
saying that this is bad for the phone in general (there are no doubt 
design compromises beside price that mean the iPhone will gain in 
some ways from not having GPS), but it will certainly be bad for some 
people.
	Cheers
		David