Re: Location Manager in OS X?
Re: Location Manager in OS X?
- Subject: Re: Location Manager in OS X?
- From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 23:16:02 -0700
nigh on 2001.06.06 9:47 PM, Timothy Bates at email@hidden wrote:
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I said
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>> [Location Manager] was killed and is not coming to 10 except
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>> as a third party add-on.
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Nigel Kersten replied
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> no, the functionality of Location Manager has been rolled into the Finder
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> itself.
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This is not the case. The location manager explicitly was killed. There is
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now no system-wide way to be location aware, except in a very limited
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fashion.
Can you provide a pointer to a statement from Apple about this? It's my
understanding not that it was "killed", but that they merely didn't have
enough time to implement it for X. At this point, I still expect Apple to
implement something with similar functionality, even if it isn't the same
APIs.
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Chris Page
Mac OS Lead, Palm Desktop
Palm, Inc.