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Truth be told, the new changes coming to the Teslas are pushing me to finally get my drivers license. I want a Tesla Model 3 bad, and having Apple Music support will make that purchase even better.
 
I assume you're relatively young? How do young people afford a Tesla Model 3?

I'm in my late 20s lmao. I know how to drive I just haven't gotten any behind the wheel experience to do the driving test since I hadn't had the need to. But since my learners license is expiring next year and with the new cheaper Teslas coming, I feel now's the time to do it
 
I've had this in my Model S for almost a week.

TL;DR I was very excited but less so after living with it. I don't hate it, nor do I love it.

I don't know if there are actual "bugs" per se, but the UI/UX is a little clunky. It's software so it can (will?) improve over time. To name a few, you can't sort playlists and they sort with numerically ordered playlists last (vs. desktop where they're first). There really needs to be some kind of macro search/filter alphabetically when looking at artists/songs/albums. I have a huge library and a notable amount of the implementation isn't practically usable because you have to sort through dozens (or more) of screens. I actually prefer Apple Music to Spotify in general, but the Tesla Spotify implementation is pretty good and — in my opinion so far — superior to the Apple Music implementation. Again, it's software and all this can change/improve (my bet is it will).
Totally agree with this about Spotify in the Tesla. Also, to note, it looks like in this latest holiday update, Spotify now allows you to sort through playlists larger than 100 songs. Before it would play the whole playlist, but only let you see the first 100 songs.
One thing I hope Spotify does correct is it only shows you a portion of your favorite albums, artists and playlists and then cuts them off after a certain number.
Having Spotify and Apple Music now if you subscribe to both can be the best of both worlds!
 
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Truth be told, the new changes coming to the Teslas are pushing me to finally get my drivers license. I want a Tesla Model 3 bad, and having Apple Music support will make that purchase even better.
I’ve had mine now for 3+ years, it’s been awesome. Had a mk6 GTI prior, and it’s almost as much fun as that hatch! I really doubt you would be disappointed.
 
I'm in my late 20s lmao. I know how to drive I just haven't gotten any behind the wheel experience to do the driving test since I hadn't had the need to. But since my learners license is expiring next year and with the new cheaper Teslas coming, I feel now's the time to do it
Hate to break it to you, their ain't no 'newer cheaper Teslas' coming.
 
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Totally agree with this about Spotify in the Tesla. Also, to note, it looks like in this latest holiday update, Spotify now allows you to sort through playlists larger than 100 songs. Before it would play the whole playlist, but only let you see the first 100 songs.
One thing I hope Spotify does correct is it only shows you a portion of your favorite albums, artists and playlists and then cuts them off after a certain number.
Having Spotify and Apple Music now if you subscribe to both can be the best of both worlds!
Agreed re: partial data in Spotify — it would be nice to see more.
 
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I know 22 year olds with a BS in CS, ME, or EE starting at 130k+ buying Model 3s.
If you've got a EE (and thus potentially making $130K), I assume you're not dragging your feet on a drivers license. Outside of NYC, they're pretty essential for anyone college-age.
 
You haven't heard about Project Highland?
Which is probably the code name for the refreshed Model 3. And still gonna be $50K+.

New Teslas are not getting cheaper, they'll only get more expensive. Especially with the EV tax credits. That's a green light for Tesla to raise the price to offset any government savings. Has happened in the past, and will happen again.
 
Is it me or is there no way to limit playback to songs from your Library? I can see a list of the songs in my Library, but there’s no way to search within the list or to even sort it (aside from alphabetically).
 
If you've got a EE (and thus potentially making $130K), I assume you're not dragging your feet on a drivers license. Outside of NYC, they're pretty essential for anyone college-age.
Not necessarily. There are large numbers of younger people that don't drive or see it as essential as previous generations. It's been written about many times over the past several years. Here's one:

 
Not necessarily. There are large numbers of younger people that don't drive or see it as essential as previous generations. It's been written about many times over the past several years. Here's one:

I've read plenty of similar articles.

What are the greater odds for a person who says they don't have their license yet? This person is 19 years old and not making $100K, or they're 22 and making >$100K?
 
They mentioned online, the annual holiday software update is available for all users, but there is a small catch:
Note: A Premium Connectivity subscription is required to stream Apple Music over a cellular connection. You see that if you click on the Apple Music portion of this twitter post.
it’s really hard to stream music over a cellular connection without a cellular connection. I tried a really long ethernet cable and it was great around the neighborhood.
 
Unless I am crazy and have totally missed this, navigating around the Apple Music app for Carplay is awful. So for Dan to comment on how great AM is for Telsa vs Spotify it's slightly annoying how Apple can't make Carplay the best version of itself before it puts its streaming platform into other 3rd party sources.
There's a big difference with Carplay, since it has to adapt to a multitude of screen sizes and resolutions, whereas Teslas are pretty much the same and are all much larger screens. The little 7-inch 640 x 480 screen in my car does a surprisingly good job at rendering Carplay, and I'm thankful the interface has been made simple to suit a variety of use cases.
 
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I really wish they would build Apple Music for Android Automotive (NO- Not android auto—google it) so I can have Apple Music in my Polestar 2.
 
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It's kind of ironic how this implementation is so much more functional than CarPlay, which Apple themselves makes...

I don't think CarPlay will even display more than 10 or so items in a list.
 
I was really hoping it would support music uploaded through iTunes Match. Hopefully that will get updated soon as the majority of my music is not available through Apple Music.
 
Ok, this with my trolling about the new Apple iBrain around a decade ago has me more than a bit concerned. Anyone else think this is a bad romance that has nothing to do with car audio?

 
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