Apple iPhone Patent Looks a Lot Like Google Latitude [PIC]

Courtesy Mashable!  Sat, 01/02/2010 - 15:20

Apple has filed a patent for the sharing of location-based data between devices and plotting your friends’ location on a map.

The patent application also appears to (yet again) show a front-facing camera on the iPhone, increasing speculation that this feature will be added.

Location-sharing is a major trend for 2010, with Foursquare, Gowalla and others looking to be the hot tickets in the startup realm.

Meanwhile, Google Latitude was rejected from the...


 

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