[greendot]

I always wanted this to actually function correctly. It worked great on my Android phone but syncing locations with my wife on her iPhone was problematic at best. It never worked. G+ between the two is also "iffy".

One side of me admires Google for all that they do for "free" but I sometimes wish they would put the phone users in the customer role and maybe these products would evolve.

Am I the only one that would like to see a shared platform with documents, messaging, and location?

I would GLADLY pay a monthly fee to sync up our family between Android,iPhone, and web. Things like, grocery lists, to-do lists, events, photos, reference documents, and the ability to see where we are so we can plan the day w/out having to ask "Where are you?" or me sending a text every day, "OMW home". They're all there now, with things like Google Docs, Evernote, Dropbox, etc, but with kids and a non-tech minded wife, the pieces don't fall into place easy.

[gcb0]

Free? I paid 600 for my phone directly from Google and my wife paid 700 from hers. Doesn't seem much free now.

[hahainternet]

This is pretty much how Google+ is going to work. They're merging Latitude with it at the moment so you can share your location to the 'family' circle and see where people are. They've got google docs which has identity integration already etc.

They're not too far away really. G+ is their plan to do this.

[allard]

Won't that require the person you're sharing with to be on G+? Currently I share with family who has no interest in that by embedding.

https://latitude.google.com/latitude/b/0/apps

[hahainternet]

Google+ does support having email addresses in circles, but I don't know if Latitude will work with that, sorry.