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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (142541)	10/10/2012 5:08:53 PM
From: pyslent	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Is it fair to say that the need for a location fix usually coincides with the need for internet connectivity to act on that location fix? I'm thinking finding reviews of nearby restaurants, checking into FourSquare, geotagging a tweet or a Facebook update, most mapping/and navigation apps, etc. If so, given that the majority of the location based services don't require the accuracy of GPS, it seems to me that the wifi triangulation that is built into the iPod Touch is usually sufficient, assuming you already needed internet connectivity for whatever service you want to use. Granted, not having GPS in the iPod Touch is a problem in cases where you would want a location fix but don't need to download anything (I can only think of 2 such situations: geotagging a photo for later uploading and mapping/ navigation using locally stored, offline maps).