who buys a honda anyways lol
At a minimum you have to look at the screen to use a touch screen due to the lack of tactile feedback. At worst, the screen actively attracts your attention from the road. A backlit screen creates light in the cabin impairing night vision.
If you can't have a transparent head up display then vehicles should have old school controls that can manipulated by feel, feedback and sound and NOT eye sight.
They didn't say whether or not the touchscreen will work with gloved fingers. Hard to believe that it wouldn't, but then if it does what's the technology and how well will it work compared to current iOS screens?
The price of $60 is very competitive with what offline navigation apps cost. Navigon, Garmin, and TomTom all cost about that much.
I guess building my iPad in the car was still te best option to have 'iOS in the car' Image
At a minimum you have to look at the screen to use a touch screen due to the lack of tactile feedback. At worst, the screen actively attracts your attention from the road. A backlit screen creates light in the cabin impairing night vision.
If you can't have a transparent head up display then vehicles should have old school controls that can manipulated by feel, feedback and sound and NOT eye sight.
$60 for the HondaLink Navigation app? Really? Really?!?
Just let me use the free Apple or Google Maps, thank you!
For something Tim Cook says is really important, I'm seeing no movement on iOS in the car. These 3rd party hack jobs are frustrating at best - not only does the consumer want seedless integration - they NEED it. The so,unions so far all look like they were designed by a committee of engineers who have to compromise with management and none of them have a clue. He current solutions are complicated, perform poorly, and actually serve as a major distraction while driving- the exact opposite of what they're supposed to be.
If automakers are slow to move, make an apple head unit that fits the standard double DIN slot, and let all of us with older cars lead the way in showing how superior a seamless In-car system can be.
who buys a honda anyways lol
Yet another car manufacturer trying to reinvent a wheel that Apple and Google have already done much better.
Does Honda really think I want to use their crappy navigation app over Apple's? I can talk to Apple Maps. I can press one button on the phone (or steering wheel) and say "Give me directions to....". I can say "What's my ETA?" I can say "Cancel directions." Also, next year, when Apple Maps take another jump, I'm likely to be able to speak more sophisticated commands to the mapping program. Also, I can do all of this through a bluetooth connection, instead of having to physically plug the phone in.
At a minimum you have to look at the screen to use a touch screen due to the lack of tactile feedback. At worst, the screen actively attracts your attention from the road. A backlit screen creates light in the cabin impairing night vision.
If you can't have a transparent head up display then vehicles should have old school controls that can manipulated by feel, feedback and sound and NOT eye sight.
The only way for iOS to work in the car is to be built in to 3rd party head units ... Not just new cars. Apple needs to partner with the likes of Sony, Pioneer and Kenwood etc.
Does this mean Apple is the Honda Fit of the tech world?
Disclaimer: This post is intended to be humorous.
chances are that it has maps stores on local storage
Perhaps Honda should make what they currently offer functional.
Considering that the Honda Link bluetooth implementation on my 2011 Odyssey still doesn't function with any of my iphones (3s, 4, 4s, or 5) I'm not setting a high bar for this announcement. FWIW it functions with my blackberry and sony just fine.
I'm tired of Honda telling me its Apple's fault and Apple telling me its Honda's fault. Get together and complete the promised handsfree option you offered with the vehicle. Buy a new model is not a solution.