Why aren't they announcing this at an event? I can't recall Apple releasing something like this without some type of fanfare and subsequent media push.
Apple CarPlay
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#22What'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...
Wait for WWDC this summer. Or next. Apple will want to improve this to encourage lock-in to their ecosystem. I'd expect this to expand in functionality in tandem with that of their watch. Both could serve as secondary screens for information you'd normally get on your phone.
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#23Interesting.. 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!
Haha, the first in-car app that came to mind was an illegal street racing lap timer. Perhaps it's a positive that the App Store censors will be approving apps, at least initially.
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#24Ah finally, no more atrocious pressure-sensitive touch screens. I wouldn't be surprised if this feature alone is sufficient to increase demand for supported brands in large enough quantities to make other manufacturers take notice.
Am curious who is in charge on manufacturing the device.. Both car manufacturers and Apple have history of wanting build the "whole widget."
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#25What puzzles me is that there has been extremely little improvement to Siri since the first introduction 2.5 (!) years ago - at least, none that I have noticed. That is a long time for there to not be major updates or to release her from beta. I would have expected/hoped that it would be possible to simply silently improve the server-side algorithms because of all the data being sent in and analysed. But so far it's…
Do you mind providing examples of use cases re Google Now vs Siri? Not disagreeing with you - just haven't owned an Android device in the last year to know.
this talks about some of the added features in the app over time http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1961636
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#26Product Lifecycle of the big brands are between 6 and 10 years, at least for Daimler and BMW. I do not expect this to appear before 2018. This is nothing you can put in a MOPF.
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#27What puzzles me is that there has been extremely little improvement to Siri since the first introduction 2.5 (!) years ago - at least, none that I have noticed. That is a long time for there to not be major updates or to release her from beta. I would have expected/hoped that it would be possible to simply silently improve the server-side algorithms because of all the data being sent in and analysed. But so far it's…
>> "What puzzles me is that there has been extremely little improvement to Siri since the first introduction 2.5 (!) years ago - at least, none that I have noticed. That is a long time for there to not be major updates or to release her from beta."
Siri exited beta with iOS 7. As for updates there have been quite a lot but nothing major. They added new more human sounding voices. They added new sources (Wikipedia, Twitter). They added other functions like returning calls, playing voicemail, adjusting brightness. That was just iOS 7. iOS 6 added more I believe.
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#28Why aren't they announcing this at an event? I can't recall Apple releasing something like this without some type of fanfare and subsequent media push.
Might have something to do with the Geneva Auto Show that starts this week, where their automaker partners had already announced they'd be showing this stuff.
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#29Ultimately 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.
It does enable that as it's just mirroring your iPhone screen to a screen in the car. Same thing you can do with an Apple TV.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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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.
>> "At least in the US market, BMW and Audi seem very likely to have mainly iOS user buyers. In Europe, probably more Android."
How did you come up with that??