“TomTom has in fact produced real-time navigation software for the iPhone, according to one of the company’s French representatives,” MacNN reports.
“Yann Lafargue denies allegations from other sources, which first said that Apple’s SDK license forbids real-time navigation, and then that TomTom itself had no internal prototypes. ‘Since the SDK became available,’ Lafargue observes, ‘some of our engineers tried to put Navigator on the iPhone. And the first tests showed that it worked well for the most part,'” MacNN reports.
“Regarding the SDK, Lafargue believes that Apple does not have the intention of blocking third-party companies from competing in iPhone navigation. The company ‘must simply try to protect itself,’ he says,” MacNN reports.
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