TomTom supposedly stops work on iPhone navigation software

TomTom, a popular GPS navigation company for cars, is reportedly not making any navigation applications for the upcoming iPhone 3G. If you’ll remember, there were rumors floating around a while back that TomTom was, in fact, going to develop for the iPhone, but the company says these are all false. A TomTom internal e-mail memo read, “[W]e haven’t officially announced anything, we’re just commenting to the press on a ‘reactive not proactive’ basis.” Whether this is because Apple doesn’t want them to, won’t let them, or TomTom just doesn’t want to isn’t clear.

In my opinion, Apple will eventually, if not by the July 11th release, create their own navigation application to integrate with Google Maps on the GPS enabled iPhone 3G. It would only make sense. Google Maps is a great program for finding your way around, so why not create some sort of turn by turn navigation to integrate into it? I wouldn’t worry about this, as there will be navigation applications on the phone when it comes out…there has to be.

Via [Electronista]