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(I can't believe I'm writing this phrase seriously...) Needs more synergy. The page shows a large list of things I really don't care about, explaining how it'l
by VLM 11y ago
(I can't believe I'm writing this phrase seriously...) Needs more synergy.
The page shows a large list of things I really don't care about, explaining how it'll make it easier to do things I don't find interesting at all. And its presented as a closed isolated silo. More than that, a collection of silos.
I have a gut feeling there must be some kind of synergy, some connectivity, some compatibility thing that would make a connected car useful, somehow. If someone messages you about your ETA or location it messages its best guess back, perhaps. Or it links to your google calendar to remind you about service appointments or google docs to store and graph long term trends in fuel economy or engine performance. Or predicts on your google calendar based on past use patterns and current tank level when you'll next need to fuel up (so reserve an extra 5 mins on the way to work the day after tomorrow, etc). Or has some kind of car brand oriented community / upload feature where citizens and mechanics who know a lot about toyotas can see my engine upload and, I donno, social web 2.0's me right in the inbox. Or integrates with social location services so I can become mayor of my local gas station automatically (does anyone still use that stuff?). Or integrates traffic/route stuff with live weather radar. Automatic facebook like any place you stop at? Integrate into google now for the benefit of the 5 people who still use google now? And G+ while you're at it? I'm sure putting some actual effort into it could unsilo the app and connectivity and synergy it all up into something more than the sum of its parts.
I don't need another "Its Torque, but our ODB-II scanner costs 3 times as much" or "We're a copy of waze with a new name, which you won't use because of cognitive load while driving so you won't like us (waze makes me uncomfortable while I'm driving)". Especially if the only distinction is something like "Our only difference is we're on kick starter instead of the competitors that have been on the app store forever, and we're from India, and our web design is super cool web 3.0".