When Angry Birds and other games get supported, I hope playing games is disabled when the vehicle is in drive.
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CarPlay Praised as Wider Rollout Begins, but Lacks Smarts of Google Maps and Google Now
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When Angry Birds and other games get supported, I hope playing games is disabled when the vehicle is in drive.
And exactly how does this benefit me? There are plenty of excellent products out there by companies that do not make a lot of profit (yet).Who cares how it works. Apple makes the most profit.
I find it rather sad that the software and services part of Apple is falling behind so fast while they could be an innovator on that front ( like they used to be ) given their pile of cash.
Thats a big mistake then. Why would anyone use CarPlay if it doesn't have a good navigation app?
Everybody has amnesia in this forum. The reason Apple Maps is now just a Apple Maps forgot the reason this so is because Google held back features on iPhones for their Andriod Maps, a while ago now. So Google maps will never make to Car Play!
Thanks for this.
I hate it. It's all so slow and clunky. Why not just use the iPhone to plan routes? It's so much quicker. I thought the whole point of CarPlay was that it simply duplicated your iPhone on the car screen. So when you plan a route, you do it all on the iPhone, and it appears on the car screen whilst you're driving.
Seems like complexity for the sake of it. Perhaps I'm missing something.
"my friend's baby naming"? People have too much time on their hands. Can we get some stats on the accident rate of these narcissists who need constant entertainment and attention, even in their cars while they should be driving?
Terrible is a fairly accurate term. I live in an area where Apple Maps is terrible - and that's being gracious. I'll be routed to a residential complex when looking for a business. I'll find the business (with the same address that Apple swore was a home) - send in the correction to Apple. Then a month later, it will continue to swear that the business (that I personally corrected) is 1 mile away, in a residential area.
Terrible is accurate. Apple doesn't implement corrections that are painstakingly turned in by the users.
I use Apple Maps everyday and it works great for me. My wife, who is tech illiterate, uses it with ease.
Is Google maps better? Yes. It had better be since its been around for years. And as for POI corrections... All mine have been done in short order with me being contacted by Apple.
Again with a comment on the destination of the author's test drive of Car Play. Had she been going to interview some CEO of a tech company, it would have been ok to use Car Play to find the best route to the appointment? But not so great to use it to find her way to get to a baby naming ceremony? Or should she just skip testing Car Play's ability to provide routes? You guys need to get over yourselves. Ms. Stern works for the WSJ so I doubt she has too much time on her hands. To keep a job in mainstream media now is to live and breathe whatever and whenever the corporation wants you to live and breathe. Free time is very optional.
On stats for accident rates where distracted driving is an issue, I'm interested in that too. I've been interested in that for decades, ever since one of my brothers stopped at a red light and was rear-ended, during the wait for signal change, by a taxi driver doing 45mph. Taxi driver had been on a cellphone and he said later that "didn't notice the light was red." If my bro's kids had been in the car, they'd have been dead. His rear bumper ended up squashed almost to the back of the driver's seat.
That functionality already exists in iOS 8 too. In my Today pulldown, the Today summary will tell me how long it would take to get to work or go home if it's the appropriate time of day. It even picks up on other things I do on the weekend, for instance telling me how long it would take to get to my parents' house, or other stuff.
Very true... a downside to a more modern approach to controls. Luckily, my car is a 2012 and the only thing the touch screen does is run the radio, sat radio and navigation... there are already replacements out there and I've seen one that does not look bad... just waiting to have more choices so I can pick the best one.
I really can't wait until the day I can make this upgrade... not only for Car Play functionality, but to just get rid of the abysmal touch screen in the car. You'd think GM would stick a top of the line touch screen in one of their top of the line cars? But they didn't... sigh.
I have a 2009 Toyota Corolla. (So guessing this holds good for '10/'11/'12, not sure though)
Mine is *just* right year/model where double DINs were *right enough* to be replaced by aftermarket radios with neat-looking trims that fit well without any gaping errors, looked good, not cheap plasticky and felt good.
(I understand the current Fords/Hyundais/Kias/Chevrolets' units come in all sorts of shapes, trapezoid (?) and more functionalities)
I wanted to enjoy CarPlay. I knew I wouldn't change the car soon. (Yes, my next automobile purchase will come with it preinstalled.)
In came Pioneer's AVIC6100NEX. Boom! Thanks to this and a Scosche Dash Kit, the whole face (literally and figuratively) of my dashboard changed overnight.
The touchscreen is flawless. No more dangling wires, clean layout. The Apple Lightning cable required if I have to do CarPlay (as yet when wireless CarPlay isn't out) is routed through inside the centre storage bin.
The Pioneer unit has of course fantastic Bluetooth but I prefer my audio through Lightning/CarPlay. Calling, texting, playing music via Siri has been seamless thanks to the dedicated microphone that can be attached on top of the steering column. Siri's success rate has been 90%. If it is extremely useful for small university town like mine, I can only imagine how nice it'd be (handless aspect) for medium and big cities. The Bluetooth adapters that i used earlier with inbuilt microphone can hold no candle.
The head unit's inbuilt Nav system is perfect. Clean layout, user-friendly, fuss free and customizable. I use it more than the godawful Apple Maps. I gave Apple Maps a chance to find me an address in Atlanta. Fail!
(I am not even going to describe the superb audio quality, the amp output, the endless customizations etc.)
I enjoy an awesome rear view camera output too!
If and when the wireless CarPlay feature rolls in, and if it is made available via Bluetooth and not require a dedicated WiFi chip of the existing CarPlay-ready aftermarket units, it'd be perfect.
Sorry if it sounded like an Amazon product review but I hope this is useful to the non-joking minority that thinks that cars have to be changed every two years.
Mine is *just* right year/model where double DINs were *right enough* to be replaced by aftermarket radios with neat-looking trims that fit well without any gaping errors, looked good, not cheap plasticky and felt good.
(I understand the current Fords/Hyundais/Kias/Chevrolets' units come in all sorts of shapes, trapezoid (?) and more functionalities)
I wanted to enjoy CarPlay. I knew I wouldn't change the car soon. (Yes, my next automobile purchase will come with it preinstalled.)
In came Pioneer's AVIC6100NEX. Boom! Thanks to this and a Scosche Dash Kit, the whole face (literally and figuratively) of my dashboard changed overnight.
The touchscreen is flawless. No more dangling wires, clean layout. The Apple Lightning cable required if I have to do CarPlay (as yet when wireless CarPlay isn't out) is routed through inside the centre storage bin.
The Pioneer unit has of course fantastic Bluetooth but I prefer my audio through Lightning/CarPlay. Calling, texting, playing music via Siri has been seamless thanks to the dedicated microphone that can be attached on top of the steering column. Siri's success rate has been 90%. If it is extremely useful for small university town like mine, I can only imagine how nice it'd be (handless aspect) for medium and big cities. The Bluetooth adapters that i used earlier with inbuilt microphone can hold no candle.
The head unit's inbuilt Nav system is perfect. Clean layout, user-friendly, fuss free and customizable. I use it more than the godawful Apple Maps. I gave Apple Maps a chance to find me an address in Atlanta. Fail!
(I am not even going to describe the superb audio quality, the amp output, the endless customizations etc.)
I enjoy an awesome rear view camera output too!
If and when the wireless CarPlay feature rolls in, and if it is made available via Bluetooth and not require a dedicated WiFi chip of the existing CarPlay-ready aftermarket units, it'd be perfect.
Sorry if it sounded like an Amazon product review but I hope this is useful to the non-joking minority that thinks that cars have to be changed every two years.
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Hey now, you've been taking it pretty seriously from the beginning yourself. Just saying.
And don't assume we're all guys... because we're not
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so much ignorance.
In many religions, there are cultural significants to baby naming.
For Example, in the Jewish tradition
http://www.reformjudaism.org/what-expect-baby-naming
I thought really hard about getting a (second) iPad mini for the car instead of a CarPlay enabled Pioneer, but CarPlay won out. Pros for CarPlay - my car is so old I would have still needed to upgrade the car stereo to be able to get music off the iPad to the speakers, it gave me a back-up camera, it didn't require an additional monthly data plan fee, and it fit perfectly in my dash without having to hack together some kind of iPad mount. The cons were that my navigation stops working when I'm on a voice call (stupid Verizon - until 'VoLTE' is more widely available), I'm limited to the apps that Apple has blessed for CarPlay (which will hopefully grow - I'm personally looking forward to some form of in-dash weather), and so far it's still pretty unstable (especially when first getting everything fired up - seems OK once it's going / music is streaming / etc). As for updates - most of the recent iOS updates have included improvements to CarPlay, no in-dash hardware upgrades necessary - which is one of the benefits of the 'mirror your display' design. The exception to this is the wireless pairing, which I suspect will require newer hardware than is even now currently available, but it's been my observation that my iPhone 5s gets really warm running CarPlay, and I suspect that trying to do that wirelessly for more than a few minutes would require it to be plugged in to save the battery anyway.
Ugh. I hate Waze. It's a hard-to-read map with a million confusing and childish symbols dotted all over.
I agree with the "iPhone 5s gets really warm running CarPlay,…" part. I have experienced it too.
Also, I totally get your need for a stylish, minimal weather app (the basic inbuilt Apple one would do!) via CarPlay.
( and I am not a big fan of the Mirroring feature though I have the connections and the cables to go with for it. It somehow doesn't scale well for me. How has it been for you?)
I agree the UI could use a lot of work - or an entire rethinking really. Most of the map markers I turn off the in the settings, and I think the default settings should be far more conservative with what they show. For example, I think most people don't need to see an icon for fog ahead by default unless they live in an area with particularly dangerous fog.
However, two things make Waze incredible:
First, the traffic accuracy is far far better than any other. Even Google Maps, which uses data from Waze, for some reason doesn't clear traffic as quick as Waze after the traffic is gone. Thus, in Google Maps, you get routed around phantom traffic that isn't actually there - which is just as bad as being stuck in traffic, in that both delay you for no reason.
Second, the police and hazard notifications increase safety. At this point, in the New England area, I can say confidently that Waze is more accurate at warning me of speed traps than a radar detector. And not just speed traps, it also warns of construction zones that require lane changes, stuff that fell out of trucks on the road that might damage your wheels, vehicles pulled over, pot holes, etc. Basically, I feel safer driving with Waze. I can slow-down ahead of time for whatever is ahead of me that I can't see.
Location data is not email. The original quotation was about reading your email.