3 ms·
Honestly it makes no sense to show it as a full-dash replacement. That means the car has to ship with an iOS device or the owner is required to always have one
by joezydeco 4y ago
Honestly it makes no sense to show it as a full-dash replacement. That means the car has to ship with an iOS device or the owner is required to always have one plugged in?
I see this more as "here's some early Apple Car UI that you all can play with and tell us what works and what doesn't, and maybe one of you developers in the audience will make something interesting we can eventually steal".
The concept images are compelling but you won't see this in any new car any time soon.
- ricardobeat 4y agoJust like current CarPlay, the car has its own UI that can run standalone, it just gets replaced by the iOS one when active.
- joezydeco 4y agoSo let me see if I understand the economics here. I'm an automaker and I want a fancy UI on my dash (like Tesla or EQS). So I put in the big screen and then add the Apple extensions to allow CarPlay 2. But what do I ship with the car? A cheap and quick UI with basic features, or do I have to write a second fancy UI that looks good in the showroom, on test drives, and when the battery dies in the phone? How much time and money do I spend on that? If I'm Toyota and shipping cheap Corollas, what kind of screen do I pay for on that car? Triple-wide LCDs aren't exactly a commodity part. So is CarPlay 2 something only for expensive cars?
- ricardobeat 4y agoEvery automaker already ships their own UI. CarPlay is an extra feature.
- wilsonnb3 4y agoIt means the car has to have it’s own UI that you can choose to replace with CarPlay, which is exactly how it works right now. Alternatively a car could just come with the guts of an Apple TV built in to run an unconnected version of CarPlay when an iPhone is not connected.
- warning26 4y agoThat's what I'm wondering -- is this something comparable to Android Automotive where the car's UI itself is powered by Android?