OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to be more iPhone OS-like - VentureBeat
Thu, Feb 5th, 2009
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In a move that should come as absolutely no surprise, Apple’s next operating system, 10.6 also known as "Snow Leopard" will have tools to help developers use location and mutli-touch when building for the system. This is a direct result of the success Apple has had getting developers to use the same features on the iPhone.
Specifically, the newest pre-release Snow Leopard builds apparently include the CoreLocation framework, taken from the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK), according to AppleInsider. This allows applications to gain a computers coordinates and locate it on a map, something particularly useful for location-based service such as the Latitude product that Google just launched.
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