Mr. Romney is running for President of the United States.
This is a position of Trust.
Ronald Reagan said, “Trust but Verify.”
Mr. Romney has said, “Trust me,” re his tax returns.
It is not unreasonable for voters to want to “Verify.

It is not just liberals who want to see Romney’s tax returns.
It is 63% of American voters who do.

The longer Mr. Romney delays, the more suspicious it appears.

Obama released 8 years of tax returns
GW Bush 10 years
Clinton 12 years
GHW Bush 14 years
George Romney 12 years.

What is the problem, Mr. Romney? Release your tax returns.

This gave tomtom the opportunity to get a foot in the door at Apple. Apple also knows there’s a lot of money to be made in location based services and advertising. They don’t want to grant that opportunity to google. Neither do they want to share all data with them.

Then there were two alternatives. Either microsoft bing maps + search (navteq data) or tomtom. They chose the latter, because Microsoft is a competitor with windows mobile, while tomtom is more of a neutral player/partner.

Also tomtom has the intellectual property and knowledge to derive traffic information from data from Apple users. They already do this with their “HD traffic” service. Google wasn’t able to bring that to the table, because they don’t know how those traffic algorithms work. The google traffic service isn’t made by google, it’s from a 3rd party called Inrix.