Google has officially retired its Latitude service that enabled people to share their location in almost real-time with others. Latitude is the latest in a wave of services that Google has killed recently including Reader and iGoogle. Google has killed Google Latitude in Google Maps for Android, Latitude for iPhone, the Latitude API, the public badge, the iGoogle Gadget, and the Latitude website at maps.google.com/latitude.
As a replacement for Latitude, Google wants users to share their location on Google+, much like they currently do on Facebook by checking in to places. The Google+ Android app already has this feature and it will be brought to the iOS app soon. However, the benefit of Latitude was that one could form a circle of trusted people who could see their location at any given point of time rather than the person having to push the location manually.
As a replacement for Latitude, Google wants users to share their location on Google+, much like they currently do on Facebook by checking in to places. The Google+ Android app already has this feature and it will be brought to the iOS app soon. However, the benefit of Latitude was that one could form a circle of trusted people who could see their location at any given point of time rather than the person having to push the location manually.
