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I believe car manufacturers already have a cross platform standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink Carplay see
by mbel 13y ago
I believe car manufacturers already have a cross platform standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirrorLink
Carplay seems to be just Apple reinventing the wheel.
- josteink 13y agoCarplay seems to be just Apple reinventing the wheel. To be fair, that's basically Apple's business models. Just add some proprietary standards and some software patents and you are good to go.
- mbel 13y agoYeah, I'm absolutely aware of this; it just seems to be so wasteful from engineering point of view.
- gnaffle 13y agoWell, if you look at Airplay, they had a technology that worked well for _years_ until the "leading standard" caught up. They do support other standards such as A2DP though.
- furyofantares 13y agoA drop in the bucket. Thinking just about code, the amount of redundant code or code that will never ship or will only ship to a few people or will be replaced in 5 years must be enormous
- annnnd 13y agoThis comment is a bit dismissive. Can you really claim that for iPod, iPhone and iPad? Sure, every invention is based on work of others, but Apple has still made huge improvements on multiple areas.
- collyw 13y agoMarketing and gaining widespread adoption seem to be the areas that Apple excels at. In most cases where something is heralded as "revolutionary" by Apple, it has been done before. Maybe not as well or as polished, but usually it has been done before.
- interpol_p 13y agoIt's pretty hard to see the iPhone and iPad as anything other than a revolution. Similar to how Windows was a revolution in desktop computing (whether you liked it or not). "Gaining widespread adoption" was never an area Apple was very good at. They were always good at creating consumer-focused PCs. The initial line of MacBooks and iMacs are good examples of this — minuscule user base compared to Windows, but built to Apple's standards of what a computer should be. Their initial aim for the iPhone was to capture 1% of the market, they hardly expected the success they received.
- LunaSea 13y agoThe Ipad definitely wasn't a revolution.
- collyw 13y agoIt was marketed as one though. And to be fair it was the first tablet to gain widespread adoption.
- interpol_p 13y agoWhat is your criteria for "revolution" in the tech industry?
- annnnd 13y agoI agree 100% with the first two sentences - but their strong point is exactly that they finish their products too. It is important to execute projects well (enough) and to add polish too - and Apple excels at that. (to be fair, their UX is far from perfect IMHO... but it is apparently good enough)
- dataking 13y agoThe steering-wheel to be precise :)