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Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM

61 pointsby barredoabout 12 years ago

4 comments

hkmurakamiabout 12 years ago
A college friend of mine was part of the founding team but resigned fairly quickly to return to his PhD program. since he is the only one I know at the company, I just feel really bad thinking of what kind of hindsight /remorse he must be going through right now :(.<p>That being said, congrats to the team! great to see robotics algorithm companies that use hard science finding success!<p>edit: I know this kind of thing happens all the time where someone leaves and the company goes on to become a homerun (ex: Apple) but this is the first time I've had a close friend go through it and I just feel terrible for him even though I haven't even talked to him about it. I guess he may have no regrets regardless, I strangely can't help but feel .... I don't even know how to say it... I just feel bad.
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helperabout 12 years ago
Well, this certainly solves the problem of WifiSLAM's software not being able to run on non-rooted iOS devices. It will be interesting to see if Apple makes a public api so that Apps can provide indoor location services.
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tiziano88about 12 years ago
what's up with the almost duplicate paragraph in the middle of the article?
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polshawabout 12 years ago
I take it this works by comparing the signal strength from multiple routers, and that they haven't found some magic to do this from a single router?