Ann Arbor's Mobiata receives praise from Apple's Steve Jobs

Apple is known for saying the unexpected at its product launches, but no one really saw praise for one Ann Arbor-based start-up coming.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs briefly highlighted Ann Arbor mobile software firm Mobiata's FlightTrack application during a high-profile presentation Monday in San Francisco.

Jobs, discussing the early success of the iPad, included Mobiata's FlightTrack app in a visual presentation of a few apps developed specifically to run on the tablet computer.

"There's some wonderful stuff that's coming out," Jobs said at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where he also introduced the iPhone 4.

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