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Re: Apple CarPlay

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Post by madsushi »

I think that making it an extension of an existing phone was a good choice. When I heard that Apple was planning some sort of device for cars, I was imagining how much of a pain it would be to update apps and keep things in sync with a device in the car. Sounds like it's essentially a second-screen for the iPhone (plus some built-in controls).

Re: Apple CarPlay

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Post by epaga »

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.

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 been a big disappointment. Google Now is far better and more useful.

Re: Apple CarPlay

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Post by theswan »

epaga wrote: post #3

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. 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.

Re: Apple CarPlay

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Post by theswan »

rdl wrote: post #4

Tesla and Audi are missing :(

I think this suggests either talks between Tesla and Apple didn't go well, or something even bigger (integration wise) could be coming up.

Re: Apple CarPlay

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Post by coffeemug »

Ah 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.

Re: Apple CarPlay

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Post by pedalpete »

It looks as though this is running your your iPhone, virtualized in your cars built-in display.

I'm happily surprised to see Apple go this route, as I suspect/hope I don't have to have an iPhone in order to make use of the cars built-in display.

Also, if auto manufacturers are going the virtualized route, their is very little preventing Android/WP/Ubuntu/Firefox/etc. to work just as easily.

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