New version eats battery, limited options.

This leaves location services on all the time now. Battery life is 8 hours when this is on. With it off, battery life is days.

The old version would turn off location services when set to a timer mode (cron? at? alarm api?).

If "Tower Switch" is enabled, then Location Services is on all the time. This cuts battery life. Ideally, it would allow location services to be off between polls if not triggering tower switches.

On the flip side, my location is accurate and current. It stays running happily and works, unlike Latitude which crashes if I stay in-app too long.

Also, this is a server based service, even when relaying to Latitude. As such, if/when Ravneet Singh discontinues the product, it will cease to operate. Lack of residual income on new sales would be the start of the end.

Its feasible some of this functionality could be replaced with MobileME.

xaminmo about Device Locator