Of course they will. You will be able to pick up your Apple car at the Apple store. The Apple car also has no ports and is not serviceable.
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Wireless CarPlay Expands to More New Vehicles Amid Rumors of Portless iPhone Next Year
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Of course it’s a hack. It’s not legally possible for any device other than iPhones themselves to output wired CarPlay. And it shows. On many cars these devices cause nothing but frustration.
I don't think I'd buy a port-less phone. To many places that use wired connections for charging, playing music etc. Gee go to the gym and want to play a movie on the screen - OH can't plug in my phone there so I'll need a dongle. Want to charge my phone on an airplane - get a dongle.
There are times where Apple does things that match an Apple goal but just don't make practical sense.
Maybe the EU will step and and require a port for all the things that need port.
There are times where Apple does things that match an Apple goal but just don't make practical sense.
Maybe the EU will step and and require a port for all the things that need port.
Wireless charger is fine, but that won't solve the lack of CarPlay. I'm not going to replace my year or 2 old $50k truck because Apple left a port off...
I will not use Wireless CarPlay until you can connect to it and a Wifi hotspot at the same time. When the iPhone connects to Wireless CarPlay it uses your Wifi connection so you can no longer connect to a hotspot. I have an unlimited hotspot in my car now and a wired CarPlay connection.
I think the introduction of "MagSafe" charging in iPhones is just a precursor to a magnetic charger that ALSO carries data. If precise location of the charger is controlled by magnets, some proprietary wireless communication (like NFC but with a higher data rate) could be employed that's nearly as reliable as a wired connection.
Am I the only one that sees this coming?!
Am I the only one that sees this coming?!
I don't remember the last time I plugged in my XS so for me this is no big deal. I understand both sides of the argument for and against port-less iPhones. With regards to CarPlay, I have seen a few video's of adapters that make wired CarPlay vehicles wireless. I'm sure this will become more common if iphones become port-less.
They are all hacks that work poorly for most people. Apple would have to make or license a legitimate device... which I’m really hoping they do.
Wired docks eliminate those problems just as well though, and they’ve been around since the very first iPhone.
Yes and no. If I want to show someone a video, if it’s loaded locally, it runs immediately. If it’s on iCloud, I have to wait for it to load and play. It’s not instantaneous.
I just paid off my 2017 Honda Accord with WIRED carplay
Since the radio is integrated into the dash, I'm not going to put an aftermarket headunit somewhere in my dash so I can get wireless carplay nor am I going to get another car payment just so I can get wireless carplay with iphone 13.
Plus overzealous police around here will handily give me a ticket if they catch me fiddling around my iphone while driving.
I’m hoping Apple releases one first, BEFORE the portless phone. That would sell the transition.
That said, I wonder if this would run afoul of their licensing agreements with car and head unit manufacturers? Seems like that would piss a few off, at least in principle if not reality.
Do you find it works just as well? I have a 2018 vehicle with OEM wired carplay that I would love to use this adapter on.
Yeah, I think I would be out if Apple introduced a portless iPhone next year. I'll just have to keep my iPhone 12 as my 2020 Nissan Altima obviously only supports wired CarPlay. I lease my cars, but I'm certainly not going to run out and lease a new vehicle because the iPhone 13 doesn't have a charging port for me to use CarPlay in my current car.
Let's hope this doesn't happen.
Let's hope this doesn't happen.
Obviously not having a feature you already don't use won't be a dealbreaker.
For me it definitely was a deal breaker a few years back. I bought a Civic because it had carplay. I was going back and forth between a Mazda 3 and a Civic. I preferred the 3 in many ways, but the lack of Carplay support (at the time) was basically a deal breaker.
Your situation doesn't mirror everyone's. The Civic has a specially designed area for your phone where your phone sits in a grippy, rubber area with cable management channels hiding the cable as much as possible. Here is a pic of it (it's the area immediately in front of the shifter). The cables route towards the front of the car (towards the engine) so the only piece of the cable you see is the little bit that connects to your phone.
Honestly people. Wireless carplay is so cool I can’t believe everyone that only has wired carplay in their car hasn’t already bought one of these wifi USB dongles to have it.
I have a qi charger in a tray inside my console on the odd occasions the iPhone needs charging, which is hardly ever, and if a Qi charger can add charge while running wireless carplay, a MagSafe charger, when one becomes available, would have no trouble at all.
Just a bunch of needless catastrophising. you all sound like a bunch of geriatric luddites.
I have a qi charger in a tray inside my console on the odd occasions the iPhone needs charging, which is hardly ever, and if a Qi charger can add charge while running wireless carplay, a MagSafe charger, when one becomes available, would have no trouble at all.
Just a bunch of needless catastrophising. you all sound like a bunch of geriatric luddites.
Why would the car manufacturer or component manufacturers care? They have already sold the car.
And yes, sad for the ever diminishing market of aftermarket head units, the number of cars that can fit one is in steep decline ever since car manufacturers went away from the DIN standards.
To be fair, a lot if us have tried it and they worked horribly. In my case, audio was super delayed. It would be annoying but workable if it was only for phone calls, but it was for Siri as well - which basically made voice commands and dictation unusable.
People experience is very hit and miss, and it's not specific to the device. If you look at the amazon reviews you'll see most of the devices have at least some subset of reviews reporting similar issues. And that would make sense, because if you look at the devices - it seems like many of them come from the same ODM with superficial changes to the housing.
You're absolutely right. There are way too many expensive pieces of equipment that require a port to plug into a phone in order to work, such as the controller for Mavic drones. Furthermore, the whole "buy an adapter" thing is pure crap, when the adapters that are on the market right now don't support all models (especially the newer ones) and when they do, performance is spotty and the user experience is inconsistent. My car is a 2020 Audi that came with wired CarPlay and a Qi charger built in, and it won't allow any "dongles" to function to replicate CarPlay. You can be sure that I am not going to buy a new car and a new drone, just for the "privilege" of using the latest iPhone. Not to mention the myriad of external batteries that are much much faster and convenient that any of the wireless batteries I have, and allow me to use the phone on the go without having to maintain some perfect alignment or carry some bulky thing the size of the phone. So Apple better take a careful look at that plan, because they're risking slowing down the upgrade cycle at a time when they can't afford to do so because they're reaching saturation, and the phones are good enough to last several years.
If it happens i doubt it will be next year.. it will probably happen on the next redesigned form-factor which in Apples case is every 2 years.