iPhone App Devs Not Allowed to Use Geolocation Just for Ads

February 5th, 2010 admin
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Apple has posted a news bulletin for iPhone developers, informing them they may not use the phone’s geolocation features primarily for delivering targeted ads. What that means is if you’re playing a game that doesn’t use geolocation for gameplay, and all it’s doing is tracking your location to serve location-based ads, it’ll get rejected. (Many media outlets have reported that Apple has banned location-based ads altogether, which is not the case.) Apple’s news bulletin reads: The Core Location framework allows you to build applications which know where your users are …


Originally posted on Wired

 
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