Contacted Skyhook about location services. Help!

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Contacted Skyhook about location services. Help!

Is there any fix yet for location services not working? I've tried it all, turned off and on, reset network settings, location services and even restored my entire device. I submitted my info to Skyhook and also emailed them. Does anyone have any advice on what i can do to fix this?

Here is skyhooks reply:

Hello -

Unfortunately, Skyhook's software is not running on iOS4 enabled devices. You
will need to contact Apple Support for help. We apologize for the
inconvenience. Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks

iOS 4, Location services

Posted on Dec 21, 2010 2:12 PM

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KVJ-iPod

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Dec 26, 2010 7:41 PM in response to Casanova4u

I echo your questions regarding Apple's location services. I have several family iPods, iPhones, and gave iPods away this year for Christmas gifts to people who apparently don't have Apple's location services support in their community.

Since so many apps use location services, I strongly advocate that Apple provide a mechanism for it's loyal users to:
1. Like Skyhook, provide a mechanism to provide a very precise location (lat/***) for individual's home WiFi location, accurate to, say, within 1 meter.
2. Reference the above, provide a mechanism for home WiFi router owners to "opt in", or volunteer the location information, for the overall community good. This could be via a web site, email, or within iTunes.

With this, Apple can be more transparent, and explain how its WiFi location sevices work, and how the WiFi transmitter data is collected, whether that be from mobile collection platforms, purchased from a separate database provider, or collected from iPhones and cross-references with its GPS and cell tower mapping, or a combination/hybrid of all methods.

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