Samsung takes location services to the home
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) has partnered with real-time location service provider Glympse (pvt) to give users a way to locate friends, family, your pizza delivery, or your cable repairman. The Glympse app, which can be downloaded from the Samsung TV app store, will allow location sharing for consumers and your IoT devices (is it necessary for my refrigerator to know where my mother-in-law is?). The app sends a text message to the smartphones of those you want in your group, and you will be able to see their location on your TV. Samsung has already pre-loaded the app on its new Family Hub™ refrigerator, which will propagate the app across the Samsung hub system, giving real-time access to those in your location group, with Samsung citing ‘better planning and optimizing of consumers time’.
Glympse has maintained a relationship with Samsung for some time and is part of the Tizen Developers Group, with Tizen being Samsung’s in-house operating system, and has integrated the app across the Galaxy S7 and Gear smartwatch line, while adding companies like GM (GM), Mercedes (DAI.GR), Volvo (0175.HK), T-Mobile (TMUS), Navdy (pvt), Logitech (LOGI), and a host of others to their ecosystem. While we are big fans of mobile applications that can save time, we are a bit sensitive to those that reveal personal information, particularly those application that want to know where you are any time you access the internet. It probably will make little difference to helicopter parents, who already know where their children are at all times (chip behind the ear), but where does the real-time location data go after you look at it? Is it available to other apps? Is it able to be sold? Will my boss know I have been sitting in the park for the last two hours? We are probably just a bit paranoid, as Gen Z will think nothing of making sure all of their friends know where they are (and what they are eating), but as our parents said to us when asked for details about a sticky situation that might have occurred during more youthful days, “TMI”[1].
[1] Too Much Information
Glympse has maintained a relationship with Samsung for some time and is part of the Tizen Developers Group, with Tizen being Samsung’s in-house operating system, and has integrated the app across the Galaxy S7 and Gear smartwatch line, while adding companies like GM (GM), Mercedes (DAI.GR), Volvo (0175.HK), T-Mobile (TMUS), Navdy (pvt), Logitech (LOGI), and a host of others to their ecosystem. While we are big fans of mobile applications that can save time, we are a bit sensitive to those that reveal personal information, particularly those application that want to know where you are any time you access the internet. It probably will make little difference to helicopter parents, who already know where their children are at all times (chip behind the ear), but where does the real-time location data go after you look at it? Is it available to other apps? Is it able to be sold? Will my boss know I have been sitting in the park for the last two hours? We are probably just a bit paranoid, as Gen Z will think nothing of making sure all of their friends know where they are (and what they are eating), but as our parents said to us when asked for details about a sticky situation that might have occurred during more youthful days, “TMI”[1].
[1] Too Much Information
Glympse app on smartphone and watch - Source: Glympse
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