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iOS in the Car 'Very Important' to Apple, 'Part of the Ecosystem'
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AppRadio3 will not have iOS In The Car support since that feature is still in beta. im almost 100% sure. i have one, and see no mention of it. AR4 perhaps. and judging from pioneer's awful support behavior in the past, they will not support AR3 down the line.
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ecosystem drives hardware sales.
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You're absolutely right. If they make this a "new car" non upgradeable deal, then it will the way of the cube and Ping. If they made it an aftermarket "thing" that is upgradeable then I think it will work.
To me, this is one of the most exciting things in iOS7. There's a lot of innovative technology in 7, but this is such a good idea and looks to be executed in typical Apple fashion. Why create an entire in-dash system like Microsoft sync when you could just hook your iPhone up to the car and get a special UI on the display with different functionality?
I have wanted this feature for sometime! Glad Apple is going for it... However I do wish you could upgrade head units also. But knowing Apple...
If they really wanted to make a car they should buy Tesla to get a massive head start. They're already designed and built in California, after all. I don't see it happening, though.
NEWSFLASH: iGas allows you to pay for gas using your iTunes account, gas stations get 70% of sales, Apple pockets 30%, gas stations bake 30% "apple tax" into price per gallon, effectively raising gas to $6.00 per gallon.
My friends have (Toyota) Scions and Lexus that have integrated iPod/iPhone built-in as a standard feature. This includes supporting iOS playlist/track selection via the steering wheel. Has been this way for a few years.
Unless there is some unheard-of animosity between Toyota and Apple that we don't know about, I'm pretty confident that Toyotas will make it into the list.
Two other car manufacturers in my experience -- Honda and BMW/Mini -- are "iOS/iPod/iPhone" friendly.
Good to hear. I am so sick of car manufacturers' systems. It would be great if they put AirPlay in cars instead of Bluetooth, which works 50% of the time and works badly.
iOS in the Car "Very Important To Apple"
Duh... It couldn't be any more obvious.
Apple is no different than any other enterprise. They're in it for the money.
And when it comes to money, Apple's a vicious competitor with freshly sharpened legal fangs.
Duh... It couldn't be any more obvious.
Apple is no different than any other enterprise. They're in it for the money.
And when it comes to money, Apple's a vicious competitor with freshly sharpened legal fangs.
...not sure if i can say "called it!" because ios in the car seems obvious, but this is my post from well before WWDC. There were a lot of haters in that thread.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17062117#post17062117
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17062117#post17062117
I found it funny that your post was edited because of your celebration...
Does it matter?
Honda isn't too good. I feel like the car treats an iPod/iPhone like a generic music player instead of an iPod... as if anyone uses a Zune. It sometimes has problems playing music and doesn't show up as an audio output device on the iPhone.
Yeah I dont get why Tim didn't say "Meh, it's a mediocre product that we really don't care much about"
He's such a poor CEO...
Ford sued Microsoft over it? I can't find that anywhere, but if it's true, that's hilarious.
No, there is a potential class action lawsuit against Ford by customers because their "MyFord Touch" is so bad.