It's been reported that Apple is preparing for getting its Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system equipped with the location and multi-touch developer tools.

According to a report, Snow Leopard, also known as Mac OS X version 10.6 will come with the CoreLocation framework introduced last March in the iPhone 2.0 SDK.

CoreLocation uses the Mac's networking hardware, aiming to provide a GPS-like experience. It works with the iPhone's built-in GPS, cell phone-tower triangulation, and Wi-Fi positioning data that Skyhook Wireless provides to determine the device's location. The feature is defined as "geographical location technology" by Apple.

In the next generation operating system from Apple, the developers will get programing interfaces that are Cocoa-based, as a means to maximize the use of the multi-touch features within the MacBook and MacBook Pro applications.

Apple probably got the idea of location and multi-touch developer tools for its upcoming operating system, from the Google's recently launched service Google Latitude and the services like, as Loopt and AroundMe.