Auto makers ditching Apple and Android car play?
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Seems doomed to fail. There’s no way the car companies are going to compete with the open ecosystems of Apple and Android and most customers simply won’t buy cars that don’t seamlessly integrate with their phones.
@jon-nyc said in Auto makers ditching Apple and Android car play?:
Seems doomed to fail. There’s no way the car companies are going to compete with the open ecosystems of Apple and Android and most customers simply won’t buy cars that don’t seamlessly integrate with their phones.
That would have been my initial reaction as well, but then again Tesla does, according to the article, not support Carplay et al and consumers still buy it.
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Yeah but people who buy teslas are already resigned to a bunch of trade offs. They’ve already decided they are interested in a very nonstandard car.
Not sure the (say) Honda CRV drivers are going to be of the same mindset.
I know my next car will have wireless CarPlay.
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Seems doomed to fail. There’s no way the car companies are going to compete with the open ecosystems of Apple and Android and most customers simply won’t buy cars that don’t seamlessly integrate with their phones.
@jon-nyc said in Auto makers ditching Apple and Android car play?:
Seems doomed to fail. There’s no way the car companies are going to compete with the open ecosystems of Apple and Android and most customers simply won’t buy cars that don’t seamlessly integrate with their phones.
Totally agree.
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My 2014 accord doesn't have it and I don't miss it. I have had some nightmare tech support experiences with my mom, trying to get her luxury vehicle to pair with her iPhone. And the process with rental cars is also always unpleasant.
Education is extremely important.
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I don't need it unless I'm traversing an area I don't know well. I'm seldom in a car long enough to care about what music is playing. I usually listen to NPR anyway. Although on last year's rental of a Cadillac XT4 it was pretty cool because the screen went all across the dash.
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My 2014 accord doesn't have it and I don't miss it. I have had some nightmare tech support experiences with my mom, trying to get her luxury vehicle to pair with her iPhone. And the process with rental cars is also always unpleasant.
@Horace said in Auto makers ditching Apple and Android car play?:
And the process with rental cars is also always unpleasant.
+1
I take advantage of CarPlay when it works without too much trouble, otherwise I fallback to putting/attaching my iPhone onto the dash and get on as if CarPlay has never existed. -
They'll have to pry CarPlay out of my cold, dead hands.
I'm never going back to listening to American radio stations. It's no wonder you chaps shoot one another so much.
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I don’t actually use CarPlay, just connect via Bluetooth… But that being said, having watched Karla use Android Auto, it sucks and are basically all Google Apps, anyway…
Still, it seems like the easier solution is negotiating data sharing.
that’s if you return your car at all Jon!