If you're not stressing about the cost of buying a cyber truck for $70,000 to $100,000, I think you can handle the $10 per month for connectivity
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How about access to all the other things on my phone that Tesla doesn't support? Siris XM, Zoom, Overcast, ABRP are supported by CarPlay but not directly in Tesla. My phone is the hub of my digital life. If my car fit in my pocket, maybe it would be ... but it doesn't.
Here you go:
Who are Tesla owners?
Eighty-three percent of drivers were men, compared to 49% of drivers for all other vehicles. Tesla owners are also typically younger; around 70% of drivers are 34 or younger, falling primarily into the millennial and Gen Z generations.
Well to be fair it’s a full on cross country LTE connection for the car. I have been streaming video for the kids (while charging) or music streaming or surfing the web all throughout Europe during road trips. Pretty cool actually
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That’s not a reason to for people not to have the option to use CarPlay. I have driven Teslas and besides battery level integration, I prefer Apple Maps.
Fair enough. I think a Tesla is the last EV I’d want to own (I review cars), but that’s just me.
You don’t like Teslas and you absolutely want CarPlay, so there is no problem, this topic doesn’t interest you.
If they wished to rely on a product from another company to make the car work as intended.
Tesla OS is build around the car, just .ike macOS is build around the hardware. Enabling CarPlay would require a serious retooling of CarPlay to allow it to function as it would in other cars with a subpar user interface.
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if you can follow that analogy, you will understand that just because other cars require Car Play or Android Auto to be functional by today’s standards, our cars come with A platform that puts to shame everybody else’s, Car Play is pretty, and in any other vehicle is an absolute must have. But I don’t miss it.
What would like to see are more apps available via an App Store in the vehicle. I’d love to add the conference tool in Microsoft Teams for example, not that I love it but it would allow me to participate of meetings using my car rather than the phone. I would like to have more car centric applications accessible to me. Even games, since Models S,3,X,Y, have a minimum a Ryzen CPU in them. I’m sure you can run steam OS in the car, and play games adjusted to the specifics of your car CPU (not while driving). I do enjoy playing vampire survivors from time to time.
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It’s a service that enables your car to have an always on network connection. It works for many other reasons than just Netflix and streaming. If you own a Tesla you can check its cameras all the time. Receive over the air updates while in motion (to apply them you have to park).
I know I can use the hotspot from my phone, but I prefer using the in-car network connection, because when you go to super chargers, your network connection is boosted. Fidelity is so much better.
The service costs $10bux a month or $99/yr.
Most people don’t understand that sometimes when you buy into a particular type of technology, you have some extras to buy in. $100 a year for always on connectivity in my car is peanuts compared to what you have to pay for XboxLive or PlayStation network. If you already pay for that and not complain, then paying for network connectivity is a no brainer. IMHO anyways.
Apple Maps = Google Maps these days. Neither is better than the other one. And again, the Google maps integration in the cars is retooled to work better on vehicles. I’m big on Apple, but not blinded.