Apple Announces "CarPlay"

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Burninator

In Flames and Volvo haha.

Yeah, who decided that? That's awesome. I love me some In Flames!

[Igster]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I'm the exact opposite. Way easier to simply rotate a dial than have to focus on and then touch a screen and have to press it multiple times to ramp the fan or temperature. Anyone that ever has a radio with numbered preset buttons and the same buttons mimicked on an LCD will always press the buttons. It's just faster and easier.

I have presets on the screen for sat radio and either press them on screen or use the button on my back of my steering wheel to cycle through them, I use the preset screen button to go to a specific station as well I use it when a fav artist or song comes on air, to tune to that channel specifically.

I have dual zone climate control so I never have to adjust the fan. Just let it do its thing. The heated seats though for example can only be adjusted via the touchscreen. There are no buttons to turn them on or change the level from high to low.

[Regular_John]

BUMP!
Geoff Teehan, a very well regarded User Experience designer has written up a really good post covering the current state of In-Car UI's as well as some forward looking stuff like Apple's CarPlay & Google’s Open Automotive Alliance (OAA).

The State of In-Car UX
No matter the price or the brand, the interfaces that adorn today’s vehicles are in a bad place. Thankfully, there’s hope.
https://medium.com/teehan-lax/9de33c96403d

Personally this is the kind of thing I find absolutely fascinating, and I think the next 10 years are going to bring about some really exciting stuff in this domain.

But I'm also the type who's delighted by the fact that my new Mazda says "hello" to me on the radio display, and that's really nothing more than a cheap parlour trick.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I'm the exact opposite. Way easier to simply rotate a dial than have to focus on and then touch a screen and have to press it multiple times to ramp the fan or temperature. Anyone that ever has a radio with numbered preset buttons and the same buttons mimicked on an LCD will always press the buttons. It's just faster and easier.

I agree. I think touch screen and iDrive style tech is horrible for cars for the essential functions. So your touch screen grenades after sitting at the airport for a week in minus 30 weather. Now you have no control over your HVAC controls, and window defrosters. Are your windows going to be touchscreen too? Wipers?

When I am driving, and I want to adjust the heat, turn on a butt warmer etc.... I don't even look, you just know where the knob is by feel. Try that with a touch screen. Open up a specific app on your iPhone without looking at the screen? Didn't work, did it. Now adjust the volume, that was easy, you knew exactly what the button 'felt' like, and knew its exact location by feel. Most drivers that have a vehicle with dual control touchscreen/switches, will default to the switches most of the time, as they are function specific, and require no menu navigation to get to.

The only reason you will see manufacturers adopt tech like this, and the only reason they hope it comes into wide acceptance, is it will save them millions in manufacturing. Instead of a bunch of complexly wired switches and hardware, they will only have to essentially have a tablet in the car, with a single wiring harness, and different software for each model.

[DownhillGoat]

Pioneer out with an aftermarket CarPlay deck.
http://www.pioneer-carglobal.com/CarPlay/

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Didn't realize it only works with iphone 5 +. Boo.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

Pioneer out with an aftermarket CarPlay deck.
http://www.pioneer-carglobal.com/CarPlay/

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Didn't realize it only works with iphone 5 +. Boo.

There must be something about the functionality of CarPlay and the lightning connector (which was introduced with the 5). As far as I know, none of the systems work wirelessly.

Interesting regardless. Wonder what the pioneer models are going for? I think Alpine announced some yesterday in the $500-$700 range.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/13/...rplay-console/

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Russic

There must be something about the functionality of CarPlay and the lightning connector (which was introduced with the 5). As far as I know, none of the systems work wirelessly.

Interesting regardless. Wonder what the pioneer models are going for? I think Alpine announced some yesterday in the $500-$700 range.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/04/13/...rplay-console/

Yeah I would assume it's a limitation in the old 30-pin. Either way I was hoping to hold of until the 6/6s but I might have to grab one for my truck.

Uncrate had the Pioneer's listed at $700.

[fundmark19]

Originally Posted by kunkstyle

Yeah I would assume it's a limitation in the old 30-pin. Either way I was hoping to hold of until the 6/6s but I might have to grab one for my truck.

Uncrate had the Pioneer's listed at $700.

Considering it is summer and you won't even be driving your truck you should really just wait until September and get iphone 6 and the deck solving all of your problems. I am sure there will be firmware updates as well in the time frame which will make your over experience better than a first adopter