What's the deal with third-party apps? I see music apps mentioned, but it looks like there isn't general support. I bet a lot of people will be interested in Google Maps in particular...
Apple CarPlay
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#12Tesla and Audi are missing :(
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#13Interesting.. should be quite interesting for app developers. Will apple work with partners or is it open for the app developer community? In the case of the latter, any news on a CarPlay SDK?
On another note, I was actually expecting Android to do this first. Interesting times ahead!
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#14Ultimately what I want is an in-car media system that is as up to date as your phone is.
I want to swap out my phone for a better in-car experiences, not switch out my entire car (as is the current way of doing it).
If this enables that and makes it possible across brands, that's fantastic. In a way it would be an unprecedented level of tech standardization in the car world.
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#15The thing which excites me the most about this is the little LTE symbol in the corner. Why? So your navigation app can update itself. We had a Range Rover a few years ago which had some crazy proprietary satnav in which was stuck with five year old maps and a buggy interface. Software Update, mmm.
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#16If I were an auto manufacturer, I'd be pushing Apple to open up the standard for interfacing this with phones. iOS and iPhones are great, but are still only used by a fraction of potential customers. Why limit your market so Apple can score some lock-in?
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#17If I were an auto manufacturer, I'd be pushing Apple to open up the standard for interfacing this with phones. iOS and iPhones are great, but are still only used by a fraction of potential customers. Why limit your market so Apple can score some lock-in?
I believe car manufacturers already have a cross platform standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink
Carplay seems to be just Apple reinventing the wheel.
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#18If I were an auto manufacturer, I'd be pushing Apple to open up the standard for interfacing this with phones. iOS and iPhones are great, but are still only used by a fraction of potential customers. Why limit your market so Apple can score some lock-in?
Seems unlikely this will be standard equipment on any car (for several reasons, but mostly the one you stated).
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#19No US car manufacturers in 2014? Why?
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#20Tesla and Audi are missing :(
http://www.openautoalliance.net/#members
At least in the US market, BMW and Audi seem very likely to have mainly iOS user buyers. In Europe, probably more Android. So picking one platform is basically guaranteed to piss off a sizable part of one's customers.
I'd probably go BMW instead of Audi if the BMW had better iOS integration, even though I generally prefer Audis. I assume an Android user would go the other way.