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Apple Podcasts App Arriving on Tesla Vehicles Next Week

If your an Apple One Subscriber ads should not be injected into your podcast. Amazon Prime members can listen to the same podcast ad free.
 
ELman said:
If your an Apple One Subscriber ads should not be injected into your podcast. Amazon Prime members can listen to the same podcast ad free.
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Apple doesn't host the Podcast files, so they can't control that. They only give a link and it's streamed/downloaded from wherever the podcaster decides.

Amazon hosts and delivers the files to you.
 
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Mac Fly (film) said:
Correct, Tesla does't provide a cell connection to its cars free of charge. Yes, CarPlay would work through the iPhone, but you know, Tesla won't give up that control. Safe to say Apple wouldn't either in their position.
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Or you can just use your phone as a hotspot. Apple Music works just fine without premium connectivity. You can also have a Shortcut enabling/disabling wifi hotspot when connected/disconnected to your Tesla.
 
Sorinut said:
...and massive tracking/logging by Tesla. The amount of data the collect and keep is unreal.
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No kidding - that's mostly for the AI/ML FSD stuff - which you can opt out of VERY easily. I mean, they're sending video files so, yeah, that's a LOT of data. Then there's the on-board data that can get polled after an accident which gets used in court cases (usually to prove the driver isn't remembering how things actually happened)
 
dominiongamma said:
I know, I’m shocked car companies charge to use such features, but I guess if you can afford the car, you can afford to 🫠, but in principle it boggles my mind
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Tesla has to pay for the cellular connection to bring podcast audio to your car. Why are you shocked that they need to recoup the cost by charging for the $10/month premium connectivity service?
 
This is great news! I wonder if my letters to Elon and Tim played a role 😂. Now I don’t have to mess with my iPhone when driving 70 miles an hour. I wonder if the Tesla’s voice control will work.
 
Scrundel said:
Are there any other cars with a large tablet user interface that have CarPlay? I like CarPlay fine, I just don’t see the CarPlay and Tesla UIs as being compatible. Apple would need to do a major overhaul, or fork a separate UI for cars with a big tablet that’s also used as the speedometer and to control core vehicle functionality. Just having a CarPlay popup picture-in-picture window would not look great
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Ford does.
 
oldmacs said:
I much prefer CarPlay over Tesla’s software. Why not give people the choice?
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Same reason Apple doesn't give the choice to run Android on iPhones.
I'd like it too, but unless people stop buying Teslas because of it then it isn't coming. Most Tesla owner's (including myself) think Tesla's UI is good enough and not worth chasing another EV that has CarPlay over the other benefits Tesla brings.
 
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oldmacs said:
I much prefer CarPlay over Tesla’s software. Why not give people the choice?
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I think there may be a couple of reasons for it. One is Apple Maps isn’t as good as the Tesla maps.
Second, Apple Maps doesn’t have any idea about the state of charge or EV trip planning.
Third, it is a source of income, I assume, for Tesla to have that Premium connectivity.
 
Good grief for the $9.99 that Tesla charges for basically unlimited AT&T LTE, they are hardly price gouging.
OnStar is now $35/month to be able to unlock your doors in an app and run diagnostics.

Glad to see Podcasts app come to the interface. Right now its probably the main reason I sometimes switch from the built-in Apple Music to a bluetooth connection.
 
crisss1205 said:
They already do.
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Lol I wouldn't know, I have a pretty old car, but I added Wireless CarPlay in it. Then if they do, what's the problem?
I have 80GB of data on my phone that I don't really use (it's one of the cheapest plans I can have...), so the day I switch to a modern car, I'll be glad to use my cellphone and won't pay any monthly fee for cell data to a car maker.
 
MacRumors said:
The Apple Podcasts app is set to arrive on Tesla vehicles with the company's 2023 Holiday Update that rolls out next week.

Tesla Model S, 3, X, Y, and Cybertruck owners in almost 50 countries and regions will receive the app via a free, over-the-air software update. A Premium Connectivity subscription is required to stream Apple Podcasts over a cellular connection.
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I was going to say, "Don't people find this outrageous?" Then I decided to look up with Tesla means by Premium Connectivity and I see that basically only one cellular function comes standard which is Navigation. Everything else that would require cellular connection will need that so-called Premium Connectivity plan.

Then I'm thinking, if you don't already have a Premium Plan, just use your cellphone to stream podcasts if the episodes are not downloaded already. 🤷‍♀️
 
Scotty_T said:
Good grief for the $9.99 that Tesla charges for basically unlimited AT&T LTE, they are hardly price gouging.
OnStar is now $35/month to be able to unlock your doors in an app and run diagnostics.

Glad to see Podcasts app come to the interface. Right now its probably the main reason I sometimes switch from the built-in Apple Music to a bluetooth connection.
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I pay by the year which comes out to just over $8/month. I think thats reasonable for what you get (live traffic, satellite imagery, streaming, etc). I hope the Podcast app is not run like the Apple Music in that it just redraws the website version of the application. I found the Apple Music (at least in my 2018 75D MS with HW2.5) to be a bit sluggish and slow compared to Spotify. But over all I'm glad more options are coming, hopefully we get an app store so that real developers can create much better and smoother app experiences.
 
ThexBurning said:
I’m a big fan of CarPlay but I also own a Tesla and there is just no reason for it with the Tesla interface. Tesla’s integration of Apple Music is so much better than CarPlay itself.
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I haven't explored all of my Tesla's apps yet but not having Apple maps nor Waze kinda stink. I rented a Carplay vehicle on vacation and realized what I had been missing.
 
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PsykX said:
Lol I wouldn't know, I have a pretty old car, but I added Wireless CarPlay in it. Then if they do, what's the problem?
I have 80GB of data on my phone that I don't really use (it's one of the cheapest plans I can have...), so the day I switch to a modern car, I'll be glad to use my cellphone and won't pay any monthly fee for cell data to a car maker.
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There really isn't a problem. People just like to complain, especially since Elon is an *******. Also $100 a year for the ability to stream music, netflix, web browsing, and remotely viewing the cameras on the car is not bad.
 
Mac Fly (film) said:
Correct, Tesla does't provide a cell connection to its cars free of charge. Yes, CarPlay would work through the iPhone, but you know, Tesla won't give up that control. Safe to say Apple wouldn't either in their position.
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Reason #15 as to why I’d never own one of those things.
 
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If you want CarPlay, you have the choice of ALL other cars ...
I don't see how CarPlay could integrate in Tesla ecosystem ...
Screen layout, Tesla apps for battery stats, controls, access to battery data/consumption, charge planning ...
My wife has CarPlay in her car, I was fan before using it, but it's absolutely not well integrated with the rest of the interface.
You constantly need to switch in or out CarPlay, you have conflicts for phone management (CarPlay or BT of the car ?)
When you don't use CarPlay, it popups each time you receive a notification.
It's a very good workaround for cars with a very poor entertainment system.
But I prefer to have a good integrated system, built for the car with it's constraints and benefits and build-in apps to access my services.
Apple Podcasts was missing, and I am super happy that it comes.
No need for any other app.
 
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Sorinut said:
I'm in the market for an EV, but don't want one with a active cell connection seperate from my phone. CarPlay doesn't need a seperate data plan.

My wife had a Model 3 when we met and while the interface was nice, I didn't like the constant data stream between Tesla and the car and there was no way to use Waze; there was also no service for about half the county I lived in. She has since sold it.
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Do you have to have the constant connection? That sours my cyber truck fantasies.
 
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