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Lojack app (iRedhanded) question...

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I was in a apple store in FL. And caught a instructional on the phone for a group. The question was asked what happens if stolen can it be tracked? The answer was no but if you say have loopt loaded you could get a hold of a friend in your loopt list and find out where it is. Of course if they jailbreak it or turn it off would be tough but was an option .
 
I could be wrong on this, but because these apps don't run in the background, th only way this would be effective is if the person that stole your phone started and kept Loopt running, no? That sounds ridiculously far fetched for a strategy.
 
rKunda said:
I could be wrong on this, but because these apps don't run in the background, th only way this would be effective is if the person that stole your phone started and kept Loopt running, no? That sounds ridiculously far fetched for a strategy.
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It's beta so I would not be surprised if it does not ship till sept with apple's push tech to solve that problem. (meaning their app could do the pushing and receiving. not looptd)

ugly site though. does not inspire confidence.
 
vaporware

I don't think this app actually exists in anything more than a cheap website.

It's not technically possible to have a way for it to work at the moment until apple's push notification service is available.

I signed up for the beta a week ago but haven't had any response. It looks like the guy is just promoting vaporware with a cheap website and spamming comments on heaps of apple forums/blogs.

Would be nice to have an app like this though.
 
Ah, so apps like this will be possible come September when push comes out (without violating the SDK).
 
Dipdip said:
Ah, so apps like this will be possible come September when push comes out (without violating the SDK).
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No, they still won't be possible because locating the phone would require that the app run on the phone and send it's location back to a server somewhere.

All the push notification service does is allow a 3rd party to attach a number badge to their application's icon, show a message (like the SMS notification) or play a sound. It does not actually run the app on the phone.
 
Apple should build in a feature, such as "back to my mac", for the iPhone. It would allow you to activate the camera, grab the gps location, and do a remote wipe (which I think can only be done now for enterprise customers?). It would also be great if it could wirelessly sync and could transfer data to and from iDisk and could use the phone as a wireless drive.

I bet most of those features will be implemented by firmware 3.0! :D
 
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