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CarPlay Is Additive

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Re: CarPlay Is Additive

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Post by qmarchi »

alex0015 wrote: post #176

It's a strange feeling reading these comments because not only have I never used carplay or android auto, I don't think I've ever noticed anyone else using it in a car someone's driven me in. Everyone I know just has their phone in a dash mount. I don't think it's that small a sample size either! I drive a 2014 Accord and it auto connects to my android with Bluetooth when I turn on the car. It's hard to really imagin…

CarPlay and Android Auto only really started seeing adoption in post 2017 Model Year vehicles.

Anyone I know that has one, will immediately either plugin or connect whenever they go live.

There's other benefits like (in the aforementioned article), CarPlay Ultra being able to send data to multiple screens like the front dash. Where having my directions right next to me speed means I don't have to check two screens.

Re: CarPlay Is Additive

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Post by wxw »

CarPlay is great. Generally much better than the interface offered by traditional manufacturers.

But Tesla and Rivian both have excellent UIs. I don’t find myself missing CarPlay in a Tesla.

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Post by jaymmartin »

appden wrote: post #128
mynameisvlad wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The final major downside is having to switch apps out of navigation to control music then switch back, But... you don't. Tapping on the home button once more or swiping to the right on the app page reveals the home screen which has navigation and music together: https://devimages-cdn.apple.com/wwdc-services/images/D35E0E8... https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wgH6RZrtKkuAQkJUjfWW8V.jpg It even adapts to vertical scr…

Our CarPlay car has a small screen, so I prefer to keep navigation full screen most of the time. In split mode, it’s way too tiny for me, but I occasionally leave it there if I know my way around anyways. It’s definitely not a well designed experience.

It sounds like the issue is mostly your CarPlay cars small screen compared to Tesla's large one. This didn't seen to be a CarPlay problem beyond maybr Apple trying their best with the screens most of their customers are given.

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Post by Ancapistani »

alex0015 wrote: post #176

It's a strange feeling reading these comments because not only have I never used carplay or android auto, I don't think I've ever noticed anyone else using it in a car someone's driven me in. Everyone I know just has their phone in a dash mount. I don't think it's that small a sample size either! I drive a 2014 Accord and it auto connects to my android with Bluetooth when I turn on the car. It's hard to really imagin…

I’m not a huge fan of it, but I do find it more convenient than BlueTooth alone.

For context, I drive a ‘91 GMC pickup, so neither cars nor car audio are super important to me. I still bought a CarPlay-enabled Android head unit because it’s less of a hassle to use.

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Post by MBCook »

numpad0 wrote: post #71
rootusrootus wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CarPlay Ultra takes over the infotainment as well as the dash displays. The author is correct. In cars that support CarPlay Ultra, the dash screens are just additional infotainment screens that default to gauge display.

And I'm saying zero cars support CarPlay Ultra because that's not how cars work. The dash screens cannot be made into just additional infotainment screens because the infotainment is explicitly architected as an external device to the car. What I've been saying is that the infotainment is external to the car, not significantly more connected and integrated than the spare tire, and that everyone needs to understand th…

Wouldn’t that mean CarPlay Ultra is flat out impossible?

But it exists. And is available in at least one production car.

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Post by MBCook »

dhosek wrote: post #155
adamcstephens wrote: post #116

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It may be for MY 2027. I know the new Bolt drops it.

Right now it’s only dropped in GM’s EVs. Of course when this causes a drop in EV sales, they’ll use that as an excuse to kill off their EV lines.

They’ll attribute that to something else and claim dropping CarPlay was a huge success and do it in gas models.

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Post by dcrazy »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #83
AnotherGoodName wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TPMS (tire pressure monitoring system) is a coin battery powered computer inside each tyre of your car. They’ve been around for a couple of decades now. Even the lowest end cars have TPMS in each wheel. If you change wheels you need to go to a wheel shop and have them re pair (as in re pair wifi) the wheel with your car. I had to do this recently with my 2014 ford focus. Anyway those are just four of hundreds of comp…

Not exactly a great example as it's unnecessary and expensive to replace. Lots of other microprocessors actually make your car easier and safer to drive.

TPMS has been mandatory in the U.S. since 2007. It turns out riding on under-inflated tires is dangerous, and people don’t regularly check their tire pressure.

My car will not exceed a certain speed if TPMS is malfunctioning.

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Post by jitl »

arcticfox wrote: post #147
jitl wrote: post #45

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I have a boring Mercedes mid-size SUV. Carplay works. I can skip/repeat tracks using the standard control on the steering wheel; the instrument cluster shows the current track the same way it's done with connected phones forever. On the center console screen, we use the Carplay view with 3 splits - one for Spotify, two for navigation (map & next direction). Google Maps and Apple Maps are both reliable where I drive (…

I wouldn't stop driving my Tesla if they swapped the UI for Carplay but I'd be incredibly disappointed at the downgrade

why would they swap. add

Re: CarPlay Is Additive

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Post by bhhaskin »

orthogonal_cube wrote: post #145
bitmasher9 wrote: post #130

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The car companies need to stay in their lanes on this one. You’re risking selling a >$40k piece of hardware that requires professional service every six months in order to sell me $240/yr in software subscriptions.

$240/yr in software subscriptions but likely far more than that by selling the extra metadata they can extract from the service

its likely not the metadata, since they already have access and sell that, but then they can sell ads on maps like Google does.

Re: CarPlay Is Additive

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Post by frollogaston »

monkpit wrote: post #144
frollogaston wrote: post #96

I've never seen CarPlay work properly. 2026 and they still can't make a car play music without jittering like a CD. Every car brand I've rented, every iPhone I've owned, gotta turn that junk off every time.

(n=1)

This isn't like Linux where the combo of motherboard, kernel version, and day of the week affects your Bluetooth audio, but ok cause n=1. Apple stuff is supposed to just work. Most of it does, but not this.
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