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New Demo Videos Show CarPlay in Action as Apple VP Greg Joswiak Attends Ferrari Launch

blackpond said:
I don't understand the concept. So you take your mobile device with a screen, plug it into another, slightly larger screen, and then use voice commands that don't require a screen.

??

The car should plug into the mobile device (preferably over Bluetooth), not the mobile device into the car.

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CarPlay is to cars what iTunes was to phones...

http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/03/say-hello-to-the-motorola-e790-apple-itunes-phone/

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a better approach

http://www.automatic.com/
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A) Bluetooth does not have enough bandwidth.
B) How do you keep the phone charged without plugging it in?
 
Come on people, it says in the article that it is a B-roll overview video. You really come to a rumor website expecting to see fully refined videos of products?
 
Ed217 said:
I don't think so.
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Because your thinking is based on knowledge about american business practices, not swabian car makers. No one will get fired and when you get a pink slip in Germany, you receive something like this:
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this looks like a cheap first generation TomTom stand-alone GPS..

hide the ugyness, and stick it in the dash, no one wants to see the back as they'll be interacting it with the touchscreen anyway.

Getting into your car 10 mins early just to hook everything up ? People wanna drive, make it simpler instead of a cable you MUST use..
 
This sort of integration of Apple and other partners has been proven to fail, look at the moto phone that had 'iPod' built in. Apple in their closed ecosystem creates a great product and user experience, they manage the user experience from beginning to end. It's what works well with the iPhone, the Mac, iPad, worked with the iPod. If Apple want to make the car experience great then make a car. That's the only way it works with them. If they were to, as rumoured, buy telsa, they already have a great product that they could manage the user experience after the buy out. Maybe that's overstretching themselves though.
 
I wonder if Steve would have allowed this. Integrating iOS into a non-Apple car doesn't seem dissimilar from letting OS X run on non Macs. I wonder how much say Apple has in the hardware involved or the appearance of the car.

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Mac-Addict said:
This sort of integration of Apple and other partners has been proven to fail, look at the moto phone that had 'iPod' built in. Apple in their closed ecosystem creates a great product and user experience, they manage the user experience from beginning to end. It's what works well with the iPhone, the Mac, iPad, worked with the iPod. If Apple want to make the car experience great then make a car. That's the only way it works with them. If they were to, as rumoured, buy telsa, they already have a great product that they could manage the user experience after the buy out. Maybe that's overstretching themselves though.
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Exactly the kind of thing I was thinking. Motorola RCKR or whatever it was called is more like what CarPlay is smelling like to me, not the Clonintoshes.
 
osofast240sx said:
Yep and another member that does not have the slightest idea! This Samsung feature was one of their worst flops.

We all know BB bought qnx, but they have yet to do anything worth while with it!
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LastQuadrant said:
It's not who comes out with it first as much as it is better. If one is better because it works more intuitively, then it has a better chance for success.
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Thats not the point, the point is people are very quick to assume samsung will copy this when samsung already tried this (albeit unsuccessfully) more than 2 years ago.

Also, this is not something samsung can easily copy. They don't have the hardware or software support to pull this off, its not like adding a feature to a handset.
 
Mac-Addict said:
This sort of integration of Apple and other partners has been proven to fail, look at the moto phone that had 'iPod' built in. Apple in their closed ecosystem creates a great product and user experience, they manage the user experience from beginning to end. It's what works well with the iPhone, the Mac, iPad, worked with the iPod. If Apple want to make the car experience great then make a car. That's the only way it works with them. If they were to, as rumoured, buy telsa, they already have a great product that they could manage the user experience after the buy out. Maybe that's overstretching themselves though.
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i disagree. apple has had a long history with car manufacturers all the way back to when iPod integration first started. at that time, each manufacturer had the freedom to implement how they want the interface/controls to be (sometimes well, sometimes not so well). at least with carplay, there's a consistent interface across brands. this is an evolution of apple's highly successful iPod integration. they don't need to build their own car to have an iPhone work in a car.
 
For me, that was a very annoying ad. Every scene repeated as a close up. I felt like I was in a dream within a dream and I didn't have a totem.

:eek:
 
I can't help but notice the crappy resolution of those mercedes in car monitors - come on mercedes it's 2014.
 
sully54 said:
i disagree. apple has had a long history with car manufacturers all the way back to when iPod integration first started. at that time, each manufacturer had the freedom to implement how they want the interface/controls to be (sometimes well, sometimes not so well). at least with carplay, there's a consistent interface across brands. this is an evolution of apple's highly successful iPod integration. they don't need to build their own car to have an iPhone work in a car.
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Apple is about to re-invent the auto-infotainment system. The biggest issue I see with the way current auto-infotainment systems is that they are basically obsolete quickly. In most cases, in order to get the latest features one has to buy a new vehicle. What Apple is doing is moving the infotainment feature away from the headunit and moving it to the phone. New features that come to the phone now are instantly available in the car. This is only going to get better especially when Apple adds the wireless feature to CarPlay. CarPlay is AirPlay mirror for the car using a simple, clean interface. It is the consistent interface, no matter the car maker, that I think is very appealing. CarPlay 1.0 looks like a really good start.
 
Tech198 said:
this looks like a cheap first generation TomTom stand-alone GPS..

hide the ugyness, and stick it in the dash, no one wants to see the back as they'll be interacting it with the touchscreen anyway.

Getting into your car 10 mins early just to hook everything up ? People wanna drive, make it simpler instead of a cable you MUST use..
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10 mins? It takes me less then a minute to hook the cable between my iPhone and the head unit in my car. I have no issue with connecting a cable as it will charge the phone at the same time. Apple is going to add wireless connection to CarPlay. It sounds like the car makers have the wireless capability built-in to the head units already, which won't be a bluetooth connection.
 
I think the bigger news is that the S-Class interior in this video is very different. My option it's better.

EDIT: I realised this was the C-Class soon after posting
 
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Plug iPhone in, hide iPhone in compartment.

Watch all iPhone-related media appear on Tesco Hudl glued to dashboard of £30k car.

Classy.
 
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