It would be interesting if someone could dig up the old apple App Store Review Guidelines from whenever Core Location first became available.

Currently it disallows "Apps that use location-based APIs for automatic or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft, or other devices will be rejected".

But I'm fairly certain that at the time it disallowed transportation industry related apps, and specifically mentioned trucking and taxis.

Which was irritating to me because during the dot-bomb at the turn of the century I had been reduced to the role of taxi driver for a time.

And the only way to actually get any fares through dispatch was to bribe everybody and especially the radio guys. I hated it and really had to work hard to make money from people hailing me.

So when I first learned of Core Location, my first thought was "motherfuck taxi dispatch - I can make them irrelevant with iPhones now".

Seriously, I'd love for someone to dredge up the old version of that document so I can read over it again.