Leah Betancourt is wondering why the location based services so beloved of Web 2.0 people haven’t taken off and been adopted by the general public. The arguments boil down to two areas (“privacy issues” and “where is the value&rdquo😉 and an easy solution doesn’t appear to be on the horizon. More below.
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We don't need it.
from a developer point of view is the cost .. especially the Nokia location based services .. last time I looked the basic entry level was prohibitively expensive .. even to provide a development environment was going to run into several hundreds of dollars even for a single site. With no evidence to show my employers the worth of this without a demonstration system I decided that location services could go on the back burner for the time being.
Unregistered wrote:We don't need it.
Most folks that I've talked to have not been excited about these so-called location-based services. They simply don't see real value in them.
no person wants the other half knowing where they are all the time surely and i can often think of times i could do with friends and neighbours not knowing. No im not cheating just like to chill.. i certainly am not going to advertise where i am..
imagine that the location service is hacked yes joe bloggs has left his house and got on a train to scotland lets do over his house..
or joe i thought you said you were out last night?
of course you could turn it olff but then thats more suspicous to "loved ones"
like the video phone sounds great to those designers but no one in the public wants or needs...
I'm in the "it's useless" camp, mostly.
Unregistered wrote:like the video phone sounds great to those designers but no one in the public wants or needs...
The main use case for video calling is probably adult calls.
Which makes me think that location based services are probably going to be popularised by AdultFriendFinder first. And if not, I've had a great idea...