While it seems like a cool idea on the surface, proximity reminders seem like they could be very complicated to implement properly in an app like OmniFocus...
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I think people who have seen google maps track them as a "blue dot" as they walk down the street will struggle with the concept that this is hard to organise. I know i do. I mean I hear what you are saying but I really don't like it! This is very bad news. Hopefully no one really thinks people wil be driving or walking Down a street with an ipad for directions!! I suppose a passenger could have one in their lap but gps for ipad doesn't seem relevant. ?
- Firstly, what distance should you need to be within in order to trigger a proximity alarm? While I suppose it could be user-configurable, the vagaries of location services on the iPhone OS platform would mean that too small of a number may never trigger a proximity alert, and too large of a number may trigger false alerts.
- The problem may be exacerbated even further by the way OS 4 will handle background location -- it sounds like by default it will only re-check location when you actually change cell towers, which means that if you're walking around a neighbourhood it may never re-check to figure out that you've come in proximity of a target location.
- Alternatively, even if a full always-updating background location mode is available in the SDK, it would be hell on your battery life.
- Further, it may not work on non-iPhone devices like the iPod touch or iPad at all if it's tied to cellular tower monitoring.
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I think people who have seen google maps track them as a "blue dot" as they walk down the street will struggle with the concept that this is hard to organise. I know i do. I mean I hear what you are saying but I really don't like it! This is very bad news. Hopefully no one really thinks people wil be driving or walking Down a street with an ipad for directions!! I suppose a passenger could have one in their lap but gps for ipad doesn't seem relevant. ?
Last edited by Casper TFG; 2010-04-26 at 03:43 PM..