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"ANCESTRY. I don't totally understand this variable. It's a fill-in-the-blank question on the American Community Survey, but there weren't any Asian categories."

Looks like a Japanese design firm tried something similar back in 2013 called the unbrella, still shipping for about $90 ( http://h-concept.jp/fs/hshop/c/unbrella ). English press …

No it doesn't.

If you are interested in life tracking, you might want to try out one of our (Whereoscope, YC10) apps called DriveTime. Passively monitors your location every 10 minutes, collates,…

Actually we started off with that - having the same interface for both Android and iOS. But Android users don't expect Android apps to behave like iPhone apps - so the affordances …

"The OS will almost always be able to minimize battery usage because it has way more information than the App could or should ever have." This is only true for standalone apps whic…

I don't want to veer O/T, but that's not the hard stuff in CLLocation. There's a lot that could be discussed, but as one example: optimizing for battery conservation requires knowi…

Clarification: We don't use any private API's on iOS, James' comments were with respect to what we do with location and networking. Apple's documentation is great for most visual e…

Yes, voip apps can also be relaunched in the background. The focus of this article was location-based apps, but there are also interesting behaviors with voip and audio application…

Thank you for that - I have updated the post to more clearly identify the subset of apps I was talking about.

The description under startMonitoringSignificantLocationUpdates at http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/CoreLo... is the place to start, where they state "If you s…

Thanks for the insight!

I'm curious about this - I've seen that behavior with Android users as well. Why specifically do you want to turn WiFi, GPS, and bluetooth on or off? I can think of several potenti…

You have to have asked for the Significant Location Update Service. I have verified this in code numerous times, and Apple representatives have confirmed in the development forums.…

You may want to look at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2135081/does-my-applicati... http://blog.theanimail.com/iphone-encryption-export-complian...

Good work Euwyn!

You raise valid criticisms, and ones we considered for some time before building the product as we did. a) Multiple proxies for demand exist, from the existing carrier-based servic…