As the dominant mobile platform, Apple’s current SDK may be retarding the expansion and adoption of social location apps. Apple’s single greatest drawback for social location apps is single-tasking (i.e. no background processes). The LOCiMOBILE suite of apps does not share this problem as it runs-peer-to-peer.

If the push for better and more useful location apps continues, developers will be faced with a very hard decision – to stay with Apple in the hope that they can gain more users and switch them over to better features if/when Apple finally decides to allow background processes, or opt to stay on the bleeding edge and build innovative features/apps on other platforms such as Android as LOCiMOBILE has done.

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