Apple's twinning of GPS location-based features with a full-fledged development system underpinned by OS X for iPhone may not be new in some ways (there's other mobile platforms with developers and GPS), but may well usher in some of the most innovative uses of location-based technologies ever seen in any previous family of devices.
Numerous examples of the potential Apple has harnessed in its iPhone Software 2.0 move are appearing, with one major move set to transform the way we drive.
Dutch navigation device maker TomTom has revealed it already has a version of its navigation software running on the iPhone, and confirmed it intends selling this to consumers, presumably through the App Store.
"Our navigation system runs on the iPhone already," a TomTom spokesman told Reuters after Apple announced the iPhone 3G, but