My I-Phone Is Watching Me...

[nikster]

Yeah .... imagine ... as you were cruising up the street, you could tap "som tam kai yang" on your iPhone App and the phone would figure out where you are and up pops google maps in street map mode and pin-points the som tam stall and shows you the way there.

Google Maps already does exactly this, on Android anyway (I presume also for the iPhone). Check out the 'places' feature. Great for finding what restaurants are in the vicinity, wherever you are.

Re. Steve Jobs "explanation", I don't buy it. They aren't recording your location, just the location of everything around you that they use to estimate your location? Right.

Here's how it works:

http://www.macworld.com/article/159528/2011/04/how_iphone_location_works.html