I wish car companies would make cars that came with, I don't know, a built-in landscape dock for your iPad mini.
So, y'know, you wouldn't have to rip out the existing (and really bad) "smart" interfaces the manufacturers seem so keen on shoving in our faces.
I have unlimited data with tethering so I am good on that front, and Apple Maps has been good for everywhere I had to go, that I did not know the directions to in the U.S.
And I know you do not get the same functionality, the only functionally I need is spotify/pandora, maps and yelp. So in essence only paying for the functions I need. Plus it is portable so when I am not in my car it doubles as a regular iPad!
I wish car companies would make cars that came with, I don't know, a built-in landscape dock for your iPad mini.
So, y'know, you wouldn't have to rip out the existing (and really bad) "smart" interfaces the manufacturers seem so keen on shoving in our faces.
Why, why, why would anybody want this?
I'm not talking about driver distraction. What I mean is, what on earth do you need to be doing on a dash-mounted iPad while you're in a car? Is getting to your destination not enough any more? Is having a conversation impossible? Have we reached the point where we need apps and gizmos and constant entertainment wherever we go, every second of every day?
All this talk of built in navigation and video screens in cars frankly sounds like rich people's toys from the future. Seriously, a car has always just been transportation to me, not an entertainment center.
Of course, when you get throttled and it takes 15 seconds to reroute you, then you'll wish you had a real GPS.
Damned kids, get off mah lawn!
I do all the time, I just use pre-2008 skills to get there.
It's sad how repressed you are. I applaud you on using pre-2008 or pre-2000 skills to get to where you need to go, but a GPS is definitely a useful tool for many.
Why spend time looking up the destination, and printing out a one-time, paper map when you can just hop in your car last minute and figure it out as you go? I'm pretty good with directions myself but the amount of time I've saved from having a GPS has definitely made owning an iPhone, or a car with a GPS worth it.