Where are my GPS apps?!

[plumbingandtech]

No, it doesn't go silent.

TomTom also "confirmed" it was working on such an app.

Nothing is confirmed until Apple clarifies the issue of applications which provide "real time route guidance" being prohibited by the iPhone SDK license, and such applications actually end up becoming available for end consumers via the App Store. What can technically be done with the SDK and reality are two different things.

I'm one of those people who thinks that eventually we're going to see the conventional turn-by-turn nav apps we're all expecting. But given the iPhone SDK license and what Apple has said so far, they're treading very gently in this area, and it's not just because of the Google Maps data (which is indeed off limits for such use, but that's another issue entirely).

You honestly think that telenav, which does work with ATT did not read that liitle bit in the SDK EULA before announcing and confirming?

that phrase is in there to protect apple, and will be excluded on a per company basis.