The Wall Street Journal de hoy, 10 de junio de 2009, informa que TomTom se producen software de navegación y un kit de coche para el iPhone de Apple. The program will be available from the applications Apple iTunes Store. This statement caused a 17% increase in shares of TomTom. TomTom is a business based in the Netherlands. Al parecer, los inversores vieron esto como una oportunidad para TomTom para aumentar sus ventas en contra de la categoría de líder de Garmin.
But this brings me to another question. First, you must purchase the software for browsing the iPhone, and then, if you want to use the car in which they can be charged while in use, you must acquire the hardware. Anybody could see that happening in the iPhone, which are cheap? Moreover, you have two companies that are benefiting from it because it is the result of joint efforts. In addition, the article does not say whether the program will work on new 3G phones from Apple announced this week.
Well, what I say all this? However, it would be cheaper to buy a special GPS navigation system for the car? I believe that the GPS navigation system for mobile phones is not as effective and not so easy to use as a portable GPS device. Moreover, not all options that would be street GPS. There is also the factor of safety. I do not see on the screen, Apple is so visible in the car as a portable GPS. I think it depends on the location. Navigational phone never impressed me.
I know this announcement, the iPhone is moved one step closer to an "everything" phone. This is the exact position that Apple and ATT want. But I do not see that it will be very useful in the car, will have to configure the iPhone, iPhone and see his response to the iPhone in the car. I do not see much success in the benefits of this hardware-software interaction, but I was wrong before. These products are to be released this summer. No specific date was not.
