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September 4, 2009

Loopt Does NOT Work in the Background

The news about the Loopt iPhone app have got a lot of attention. But as I’ve discovered later, there is a serious mistake in it. So, to set things straight:

Loopt iPhone app does NOT work in the background. The solution is using server-to-server communication between AT&T and Loopt (basically Loopt gets the location data directly from AT&T).