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A BMW outage made Apple CarPlay unusable. Why connect everything unreliable?
- _iyig 7y agoSubmission title is editorialized. “Why connect everything unreliable?” is, besides a confusing sentence in English, text absent from the linked article.
- lousken 7y agoumatrix just blocks the site for me so here's outline https://outline.com/TthDsC https://outline.com/TthDsC
- adamzochowski 7y agoFor me I get adblock blocking the series of redirects: Step 1: Engadget is doing a 307 redirect to : ttps://guce.engadget.com/consent?brandType=nonEu&gcrumb=_____&lang=en-US&done=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2019%2F05%2F10%2Fbmw-carplay-outage%2F Step 2: that gets me a 302 redirect to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=1_cc-session____GUID____ https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=1_... Step 3: adblocker blocks it I assume there is some cookie that would get set between the redirects to make sure that eventually the real url loads without a 307. As it stands I won't be reading.
- GHorner 7y agoOn the PC, AdGuard works fine to solve this maze and load the proper site. However, it does not work on the iPad and I have not found any solution so far.
- shereadsthenews 7y agoWhat the article fails to mention is that CarPlay is not an option on these, it’s a subscription! They charge you every year to keep it running. I don’t know why anyone would put up with that.
- sofaofthedamned 7y agoYep, it's amazing. That along with not supporting Android Auto is a reason we disregarded BMW when be bought a new car last month. How can you charge a subscription for something which is a single install, with no ongoing costs? Do they not realise that Audi exist?
- apple4ever 7y agoApple should forbid this practice. Its one thing if CarPlay requires a service. But it doesn't. Its just a connection method. There is absolutely no reason to make it a subscription.
- akmarinov 7y agoSoooo do we get a bunch of car company can’t be tech company hate threads, like we get the reverse for Tesla now?