Long Views

The Enormous Promise of Location

  • Thursday, April 29, 2010

While location has no shortage of wrinkles to iron out -- including the emergence of some solid business models -- the space holds enormous opportunity for developers and everyone else in the value chain.

Location is a nascent space with plenty of wrinkles to iron out, including thorny privacy concerns and less-than-pinpoint positioning technologies. But there are plenty of opportunity in location, and there will be for quite some time.

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