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I’d be surprised if this isn’t just another Android fork.
It's not from what I read. MBUX, the UI is built using Qt.
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#52Ok... What car brand has the least bad UI these days? I have been putting off getting a new car for about a year.
Mazda. They’re all in on being anti-touchscreen plus they support CarPlay (with a physical control).
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#53The use of touchscreens has made handling devices and machines a lot less pleasant. We will soon see a reverse movement, where physical buttons become more important again. So much more satisfying. Of course, this can still be combined with plenty of software.
I'm surprised the StreamDeck family of gizmos hasn't caught on as a popular aftermarket car mod. It's just little LEDs inside clear buttons. I'd love about 5 of them right on the center console that I could somehow program to do routines for me.
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#54A friend just bought a Mustang and showed it off.
The driver's dashboard is a somewhat configurable screen. All I could think of was that a 1970 Mustang, treated moderately well and maintained regularly, is still a useful car fifty years later. In fact, if it's survived, the asking price is within spitting distance of a new Mustang.
Is there any chance that a 2023 Mustang will be a useful vehicle in 2073?
Will any 2026 Mercedes still be running and maintainable in 2076?
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#55The best car OS so far (even better than Tesla IMO) has been Apple CarPlay. Just be dumb and let my phone handle it, and make the touch screen decent. Bonus points if you implement the multi screen CarPlay concept! Just give up!
This is the saving grace.
And luckily, the next generation CarPlay will span the entire dashboard, including in front of the driver [1]
I can’t wait to abandon my native “infotainment” cluster**
[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/28/next-generation-carplay...
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#56Is this using Jolla's Android AppSupport? https://jolla.com/ I use a Sailfish OS phone and it works amazingly well. I know they have been pushing hard into the auto industry after pulling out of Russia because of the war. I would be very pleased if Mercedes is helping fund Jolla.
In the past few years Jolla worked together with MB. In the latest Sailfish release there were a lot of Android updates, and it seems of high importance to Jolla. At the same time, Jolla could use a new investor, but there was no news that MB would be interested in becoming an investor in Jolla.
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#57Yuck: > MB.OS is designed and developed in-house to retain full control You better have some world class software engineers to pull this off, a LOT of them. And retain them. If not, you better go open source. You can still retain full control with open source. Good software is the KEY to good cars, especially electric ones. Why are we inventing 100 different models of cars every year? What a waste of human potential.
Ecosystems are the key, not so much in which house or how public it is built. (see: iOS) It's also a system for a car, and probably a niche one at that. There are a few things that are relevant in Car-OS these days: - Ecosystems - Long-term maintenance - Integration with a phone that takes over most day-to-day interactions - Car should work without it If MB.OS and BMW's version and Audi and whoever else wants to buil…
This makes an odd assumption about what drives, and does not drive, sales. Companies don't buy 300 company car because it has the best center console OS.
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#58>Offering flexible upgrades do you want to buy the headlights DLC ($0.9 first month, then $29.9)? Y/n
I can't wait when infotainment will start playing ads.
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#59Ok... What car brand has the least bad UI these days? I have been putting off getting a new car for about a year.
One with Apple CarPlay and/or Android Auto built-in, so you can avoid the car UI as much as possible.
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#60Everyones talking about alot of negatives. But I have a E53 AMG 4matic+ coup. It looks amazing, like constant compliments, i've even had people compliment it and give me their number in a wendy's drive through. But the OS(MBUX 2) is actually really good, at first I was a bit negative on it. But the way they have everything integrated that isn't really possible with apple play is nice. The dash is customizable, I have…
I have an EQB and I totally agree. I insisted on getting CarPlay but I used it once and I don’t see any need for it. Much happier with MBUX. However, this new Android based OS isn’t good news and I’m not sure I would want to get a new car with an Android based OS in it.