VentureBeat: Other Platforms Will Push Apple to Support Background Location Tools in iPhone

VentureBeat follows up on Brady Forrest’s piece noting the limitations of the iPhone related to automatic continuous location determination.

[Pelago, maker of Whrrl, CEO] Holden sounded much more optimistic about the other platforms [than the iPhone] that Whrrl is running on or will soon run on. Phones such as RIM’s BlackBerry running on networks such as Verizon’s should allow for LBS background features eventually. Likewise, Google’s upcoming Android platform will have background location features. Applications like Life360 depend on it.

When these are released and if they become as popular as Holden thinks they will, expect the pressure to be on Apple to follow suit.