Apple should've bought Waze when they had the chance. And DropBox, for that matter.
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CarPlay Praised as Wider Rollout Begins, but Lacks Smarts of Google Maps and Google Now
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Apple should've bought Waze when they had the chance. And DropBox, for that matter.
I don't really see a use for either. I like the VW navigation better than either of them. I thought CarPlay sounded great, but I doubt I'll ever use it. My car has satellite radio, SD card, etc. I might occasionally use CarPlay for music though if Apple Music is compatible.
Maybe it's only working in the U.S.? In the UK it gives me options when I first set the route based on traffic, but won't dynamically update during the journey.
Why not search on "baby naming ceremony" and see what happens?
Just did.
My official ruling: someone like Prince William and Kate's kid is allowed a baby naming ceremony, but the rest of us can make do with a Facebook post.
If that.
What is a baby naming? Do all the guests write suggested names on paper then they draw the babies birth name from a hat? Do they only choose a first name or is the middle name in play? Can they vote on a surname hyphenate at a baby naming?
I can actually provide some limited insite, since we drove to NYC last week for my birthday. We had four devices in the car, one android, three iphones, and we were running google maps and Apple maps at the same time to give them a test (and I wanted to see the 3d maps lol). Anyway, the only mistake Apple maps made was labeling a freeway east when we wanted west. The rest of the naming and exit number were right, so it was just a strange typo.
Traffic info is still a killer. It's that way in Boston too, and most of eastern MA. Of course here is also no transit in Apple maps, though apparently that is coming to seloect cities with iOS 9. Without Google maps transit we would have had a pretty rough time in NYC. There are plenty of maps in the subway, but that requires making sense of a map and "connecting the dots". Google does all that for you.
You don't ever use public transit? Never want to check the traffic before you're in youre vehicle? Don't look up a place to eatg on yelp and want to go directly to navigation without having to type it into your in car gps unit?
Unfortunately I don't have experience with VW navigation, but I have done ford, audi (same as VW?), toyota, and honda (and Dodge in a friends truck) and nothing compares to a smartphone in my book.
I think the point of his statement was that until Google maps can be used with carplay, it is inferior, for him.
Apple hasn't added it to their CarPlay features list. If and when they do, it will be available. In short, because of Apple.
That is also partly what this news post is about...
Apparently they never had the chance with drop box. Jobs approached drop box very early on and they declined because they knew that what they had was incredible.
It quite depends on the parents' religion, culture or their choice to have a special ceremony when marking the occasion of revealing the child's name. In some cultures a particular set of rituals in a formal ceremony are regarded as essential for the child's proper welcome into the family and community. Like a christening, for example, where the child may wear a christening gown that goes back several generations, and where he or she is the central character in a reinforcement of the parents' and other attendees' religious beliefs.
There's a write-up in Wiki that details a few types of naming ceremonies.
On topic: Ms. Stern, the author of the piece in the WSJ that's the topic here, wrote that she was going to her friend's baby naming and was testing Car Play while en route to that event.
I rather think we never would have got off on this bit of questioning the value of the type of event she was heading to if she had written instead that she was going to, say, the Broome Tioga Sports Center to watch a friend compete in a mud race.
And that's why I inquired as to why one poster wrote that he couldn’t read the article past "I got in my car to go to my friend's baby naming". Obviously she had to go somewhere to test the Car Play app, so nothing wrong with mentioning what her errand was in the meantime.
But you know, if a member here might think that going to a sports event or picking up dry cleaning would be a valid trip to test Car Play on, and going to a baby naming ceremony would not be just as good, simply because he never heard of such a thing, that would seem strange to me. I mean maybe some unfortunate people have never been to Broome Tioga when they're running a Hillbilly Bog... but that's no reason to quit reading about the Car Play test...
And I hope I didn't just land this thread in PRSI. Not my intention at all.
How do you expect it to more accurately predict what you want if it doesn’t know what you like. I wouldn’t mind betting loads of organisations do this.
Maybe not read your mails explicitly but have an algorithm flag up the number of mentions of specific words that it thinks may be useful for example;
Maybe/Maybe not now but definitely in the future, when you ask Google/Siri that you want a coffee, they may well look at the number of times you’ve mentioned the word Starbucks or Costa in the last few months and compare it with the coffee shops in your vicinity.
Regardless of what they say I don’t believe that Crapple don’t do similar things.
I’ve always wondered why BT is needed at all. I have my phone plugged in so it should interface directly with the system audio.
not really...
software updates are free on any ios devices. and they WILL come earlier than software updates on carplay devices (3rd party hardware always comes last.. think about android...).
hardware updates are ... hum.. very expensive for carplay. A $1k bulky device that requires tools to install/uninstall & that gets depreciated so quickly. you won't get much $ out of it when selling it.
the ipad mini, however, you can go by buying the new one and selling your old one every time a new one is released for about $100 out of pocket.
I second this. Mercedes after all have an awful looking iPad charlatan perched on the dash of some of their newer cars. What’s the difference?
Who needs Car Play. I have my iPhone/iPad and Siri both work on my BMW car system.
What I find a bit of a fail is that the display, (especially for the Nav function) , is down by your knees.
I’m not at all a fan of touch screens in cars but it looks nice enough.