Ford to Offer In-Vehicle Voice Control of Select iPhone Apps

[jeffy.dee-lux]

In terms of quality and reliability, most surveys and studies show that american and japanese cars are more or less on par these days, simple as that. Neither is much better than the other. In terms of styling, I would argue that a few of the Toyota and Honda stalwarts have gotten VERY stale (corolla, accord, civic, camry) and are in need of major attention, but I'll concede that that's subjective.

In terms of recalls, 26K is far from a "major" recall. But yeah, don't go thinking that anybody has a spotless record, and Toyota's was far from the largest ever. It was just really poorly handled, they fumbled around with the issue a lot and confused and frightened a lot of people.

 

[zin]

I just came from the newest article and I honestly thought this thread title said "Ford to offer in-app vehicle control for iPhones".

How devastated I was to re-read the title.

 

[neoelectronaut]

I would like to say that Sync is a sack of **** as far as Music playing is concerned. It flat out refuses to read my 1G 32GB iPod Touch running 3.1.3 (and I can't seem to get it to downgrade to 2.2.1, which I'm sure it won't have as much trouble with) and it won't index over half of my iPhone's music because of the "Compilation" option being set on a good number of songs, which I refuse to remove because it really messes up the organization of my iTunes library.

 

[Photics]

But who would buy a ford unless you are buying a truck?

My current car is a Ford and I'm thinking that my next car will be a Ford too. The 2012 Ford Focus Electric looks cool and the Ford Mustang is awesome. Wow... 30+ MPG in a cool looking sports car!

although Ford has promised that more applications are coming soon.

HA HA! Does it work with Angry Birds?!

ME: KITT, Launch red bird 45° at maximum power.
KITT: Right away Michael!

 

[WoWG]

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Its amazing in this time that all software on a car isnt upgradeable. As much as I like the iphone, I could put a full color capacitive AND transflective touch screen with a speedy DIN1 PC in my car for far less than what the average cost is for navigation systems. Its a ridiculous divide that will backfire on the car industry as soon as the population realizes how much they are being ripped off.

In reply to this moronic fight over whether america or japan is the better manufacturer in cars (this is a global economy people, get with the times), I would point out the major GM recall that took place just recently; over 26k vehicles. It was due to something about the possibility of the rear axles locking up. No manufacturer is perfect and while the population may not realize the existence of globalization, american companies do. So all this banter about who is better for our economy is pretty shortsighted.

I think the population is pretty aware of globalization.
More cars need to be manufactured here in the United States and exported, I think the other commenter just had a sense of ethnocentrism.

 

[MyMac8MyPC]

My current car is a Ford and I'm thinking that my next car will be a Ford too. The 2012 Ford Focus Electric looks cool

Same here. I'm amazed by how nice my 2010 is. No doubt about it for the past couple of years Ford has been on a roll. Now they are going to come out with the C-MAX Energi. I was excited about the Chevy Volt until they increased to price so high. They can keep it. The 2012 Ford Focus Electric recharges in much less time anyway (3 hours) and looks better. I can't wait to buy an electric car and truly stick it to the oil companies. BTW I LOVE my SYNC! Just wish Ford supported it better as they promised they would. Hopefully this new tech will be available for existing SYNC customers too

 

[Aidoon]

Wow, this is a super initiative. I would like to use this with MapQuest, texting, email, assuming the voice recognition piece works.

I got in a Ford car for the first time in a while at a recent trade show. I was amazed at how the interior had changed from what I remembered. They have really made changes for the better and this seems like another step in the right direction.

Kudos to Microsoft for opening up to iPhone.

Win, win, win.