Apple and Google to Blog the World

Zrop writes "AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has been working on OS-level integration of an geographical mapping technology as an integral part of Leopard, its next-generation OS. The technology is rumoured to employ GPS functionality. Will GPS chips make Apple iPod phones and MacBooks location aware? Users would be able to post information at a location, hanging in the air, ready to be browsed by people passing by. Imagine getting highly relevant messages, without even pressing a button, simply because you are in the vicinity and your preferences match the content of the post."

I can graphiti the WORLD!

[mrmeval]

Muh ha ha ha

I can just imagine the nasty surprises.

[Spazntwich]

"You're not standing in a puddle of water."

Let me guess

[theurge14]

"Here I sit all broken hearted
I tried to..."

You know the rest.

Finally.

[CosmeticLobotamy]

Neat, a way for me to tell passers-by, "Bob Johnson sucks ****," without the hassle of finding a bathroom stall and a marker. Heck, now I can let people know right as they're passing Bob's house. He'll be so happy.

Re:Finally.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey man, fuck you!

Bob

Ummm...

[dangitman]

How do I type if I'm hanging in the air? And isn't this Mac-user-levitation technology a bigger story than boring old GPS?

Re:Will this "feature" have an off button?

[carpe_noctem]

Do they make tinfoil iPod cases?

They did, but people complained that they scratched too easily.

Re:You mean...

[Fungii]

Exactly what i thought.

Still though, more relevant ads are probably a good thing.

Imagine the Future...

[Aminion]

... you will hover by a school and be attacked by "LOL U teh gay!!1" messages.

... you wife borrows your nano nuclear powered PDA only to receive the following message as she passes one of the store downtown "Hello again, Mr Smith! We hope you enjoyed Chixx with Dixx 69. May we also suggest: Brazilian Tranny Wars 43?"

... your n00b neighbor has got his box pwned again and it is constantly broadcasting ads for Viagra alcopops and penis pumps with festive Christmas motifs.

Re:"integration" or "bundling"?

[NoMaster]

Apple: Where the customers eat shit and like it.

Linux: Where the customers eat shit, and get told "Submit a patch or run back to Micro$uck$ Windoze, n00b!"

(Disclaimer: I'm a Mac user. And a Windows user. And a Linux user, and an OpenBSD user, and ...)

so many evil uses....

[Anonymous Coward]

Just imagine using google to search for drunk females feeling lonely and vulnerable within a 20 mile radius

And then the fun of finding your sexy net lady is still a 40 year old homosexual man

the streets will be overrun by /.ers

[Aeron65432]

Every street corner will pop up a notification saying, "CowboyNeal WAS HERE," and the obligatory "in SOVIET RUSSIA THE INTERNET MESSAGES YOU."

I, for one, welcome our new GPS-messaging overlords.

Congratulations:

[jpellino]

"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door."

Re:You mean...

[Anonymous Coward]

I've got a better idea. How about NO ads, relevant or otherwise?

This from a guy with an ad in his sig.