Where is TomTom for iPhone?
What is going on? Dutch company TomTom offers navigation software that belongs to the most popular in the world and certainly most popular in Europe. They make not only software for smartphones but also plenty of navigation devices too and also plenty of accessories (like the holder for iPhone pictured above).
However until now, still TomTom for iPhone has not been released, despite the fact that it has been officially announced! Why?
Firstly let us tell you that now there are already some turn-by-turn GPS navigation apps in the app store! Just search for "Navigon" or "Sygic" in app store to find them. However TomTom is still not released.
I think we know why! Do you know what is jailbreaking? It is breaking your phone so that it can run any third party apps, also those not approved by Apple (example: iPhone 3G could record videos but Apple crippled it on purpose and Apple adds video recording app only to iPhone 3GS = a clear lie and dirty practice of Apple). However a dirty, very dirty "secret" of jailbreaking is that you can find, at websites like "appulo.us", all the apps available on App store, but you don’t have to pay anything. Even Navigon is there for free!
We reckon that TomTom is working on figuring out how to copy protect their software on iPhone. Probaby it is so easy to hack apps that once TomTom will be released to app store, hackers would have it hacked within days and everybody who jailbreaks their iPhone would have for free off the Internet.
Conclusion: piracy on iPhone is rampant – on massive scale – and no wonder that TomTom for iPhone is not out yet. We reckon that TomTom wants to add additional security to their app (on other smartphoners users are required to activate over Internet with special codes) but there might be some problems…
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[...] Navigatora dla iPoda opóźnia się, bo planowany był pierwotnie na początek okresu wakacyjnego. Niektórzy twierdzą, że przyczyną może być dokładanie przez firmę starań, by poprawić antypirackie [...]
Well how much have TomTom lost in sales to Navigon by now? I know a large number of people got the Navigon for Europe or for Scandinavia at the lower introductory offer. Sure there is piracy mainly from the “kids” who got the iPhone from “Dad”. I think TomTom is crazy to loose out on sales… Hello! It’s soon August and hollidays are soon over here. If I needed navigation fro my summer hollidays I would have gotten Navigon.
Even stranger is no communication from TomTom on when to expect the release!?
If tomtom was looking for a way to solve the piracy problem, then they could make it such that the software would require the mount to operate. And, instead of using your credit card to purchase the software through itunes, they can just sell the mount with a download voucher for the software?!? I mean, how hard can that be?