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Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard to include location, Multi-Touch™ developer hooks

Thursday, February 05, 2009 - 09:18 AM EST

"Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will include tools borrowed from the iPhone that let developers determine the geographical location of Macs, as well as extend additional support for multi-touch to their apps," Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.

"People familiar with the latest pre-release distributions of the next-gen OS say the software now includes the CoreLocation framework previously available via the iPhone SDK, which will allow Mac applications to identify the current latitude and longitude of the Macs on which they're running," Jade reports.

"Since Macs don't include GPS technology like the iPhone 3G, CoreLocation will utilize a Mac's existing networking hardware to triangulate the system's location in a manner similar to the way the original iPhone was able to use the technology ti emulate a true global positioning signal," Jade reports.

"Those same people say that developers writing applications for Snow Leopard will also gain access to a new set of Cocoa-based programing interfaces for leveraging the multi-touch features of the latest MacBooks and MacBook Pros within their applications," Jade reports.

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Macs don't include GPS technology, yet. And, of course Snow Leopard has CoreLocation and Multi-Touch™ hooks, how else is the MacBook touch going to... Uh, never mind.

20,000! Whew!

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Feb 05, 09 - 09:24 am Comment from: occams razor

MDN, CONGRATULATIONS. The big 20k, that’s some Mac history. Thanks for all your tales and takes.

Feb 05, 09 - 09:33 am Comment from: Jersey_Trader

The OS will need the multi-touch built in so they can add it to the Macs to use a wireless and built in multi-touch mouse pads. Could even use a iPod touch or iPhone as a wireless multi-touch mouse pad.

It could change the visual controls on the screen of the multi-touch mouse pad based on the point in the application in the Mac you are running. It would also make a great game controller. Could use more than one in a game. Think new multi player computer games!

Feb 05, 09 - 09:37 am Comment from: ron

Now I'll be able to find my Mac if I lose it - Oh wait!

Feb 05, 09 - 09:41 am Comment from: Connor MacBook

Been thinkin' (dangerous, I know) it won't be a MacBook touch if it's a tablet. Notebooks are called notebooks because they fold shut.

Maybe it'll be called iPad or MacPad...?

Feb 05, 09 - 10:06 am Comment from: Crabs

iPad sounds a bit too much like someone with a really strong New England accent saying, "iPod" so I think it'd have to be MacPad

Feb 05, 09 - 10:22 am Comment from: Huh?

Please explain: "20,000! Whew!"

Feb 05, 09 - 10:34 am Comment from: r1

why the heck do i need location services in my operating system on my desktop. what if i don't want it? sounds like privacy invasion to me. can i turn it off.?

Feb 05, 09 - 10:50 am Comment from: MrScrith

@Huh

According to the URL this is the 20,000'th article. Good job Razer catching that one!

As for the content of the article, with Snow Leopard actually having released API's for the multi-touch FireFox won't have to reverse engineer the multi-touch gestures for it, hopefully they'll release the API's back to Leopard to make it easier.

Feb 05, 09 - 11:19 am Comment from: CourtJester

So anyone unfortunate to have their Mac stolen will be able to discover its location???

Then armed with a RPG or bazooka .......

Feb 05, 09 - 12:59 pm Comment from: SirROM

While I may be the last person to figured this out, my first thought was “well it makes sense to add this to Snow Leopard because they are ALSO building a version of Snow Leopard for the next iPhone OS version.”

Feb 05, 09 - 02:25 pm Comment from: Gosh

I thought iPhone OS was Mac OS X anyway - so Multi-Touch ought to be a no brainer inclusion in 10.6!

Feb 05, 09 - 08:02 pm Comment from: Cubert

Congrats, MDN! Couldn't have chosen a better article for it.

Moving ahead toward the future of Apple and the future of MDN.

Feb 05, 09 - 08:07 pm Comment from: Cubert

I remember an Apple patent a few years ago for a GPS module in a laptop with automatic metadata tagging of everything. And, I mean everything. It even tagged where you were each time you listened to a song on iTunes.

Feb 05, 09 - 08:49 pm Comment from: Victor Meldrew

Someone explain to me how this would be useful.

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