R.I.P. Latitude
Posted on February 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
According to a post at Cocoia Blog, Latitude is dead. Here are the details:
I was really quite fond of the concepts behind Latitude, but as all the members of the team have no free time to spend on it, we have to be frank after months of inactivity and call it quits.
Fortunately (or rather, unfortunately), it seems not all concepts shown in the mocked up screenshots of Latitude will go lost with the demise of the project. Apple has patented (yes, legally patented) a few of the ideas that we have discussed online. These patent filings appeared in late 2008 on websites like Macrumors, and as a team, we were quite surprised to see them. For us, it won’t matter, but I hope it won’t stifle innovation in the browser marketplace. I do hope to make an announcement in January that will relate to this, and I hope it will also help in a future where I hope to see more well-designed and useful browsers. So long, Latitude, we barely knew ye.
If you’ll recall, I first covered Latitude here back in March, and later interviewed the man behind the browser concept, Sebastiaan de With. It’s a shame to see the idea come to an end.
Tags: Apple, Latitude, Minor Players, Patents, Sebastiaan de With