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we are incredibly psyched about Luke on the iPhone loped is about connecting with people on the go which is after all the main reason you have a phone we show you where people are what they're doing and what cool places are around you the orange pin up there is where I am right now and the blue pins represent my friends we make serendipity happen it's amazing how often you wrote a restaurant a couple of blocks away from a friend or stuck in an airport with an old classmate and don't know about it will show you that this is the best version of Luke that we have ever made and by far the best device we've ever had the opportunity to work with we've developed for nearly every mobile platform out there this one is the best and the most powerful so James is navigating the map just like you'd expect by pinching and dragging and tapping and we can see that there are some friends down south a friend of mine is driving across the Golden Gate Bridge and here are some friends that are varying their bias right now we can tap the map a few times to zoom in and as we zoom in we see that there's one friend very very close so we can tap on that dot and it's Erin Easter and she's only a few blocks away and so we can see what she's been doing today this is called her journal photo she's taken text she's entered all of this tied to places and shareable with any other service she'd like and the thing in blue is a comment that her friend has left earlier today so we can tap on that top entry that says back at the cutest little cafe and we can tap on it again and that photo will enlarge so that does actually look pretty cool and I don't have lunch plans today so we'll see if she's free so we can go back I could call her or I could text her we integrate with the native iPhone api's but I'll leave a comment and I'll say free for lunch if she is free then I can get directions to her in one click and one line of code another example of the power of the SDK and this is really all an example of the power of location location plus a contact list and information about cool places means you never have to eat lunch alone again or at a bad place and we think that's really cool we really do you can use loop with your friends on most other carriers or devices in the US we are the largest social mapping service in the world and very happy to announce that loop will be free on the iPhone and in the App Store at launch anyway we think this is a new era of mobile we're thrilled to be part of it thanks very much you