Apple CarPlay: iOS Vehicle Integration

[mikeTee]

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GENEVA―March 3, 2014―Apple® today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay, the smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone® in the car. CarPlay gives iPhone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and access messages with just a word or a touch. Users can easily control CarPlay from the car’s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri® without distraction. Vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will premiere CarPlay to their drivers this week, while additional auto manufacturers bringing CarPlay to their drivers down the road include BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor Company, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor Corp.

“CarPlay has been designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an incredible experience using their iPhone in the car,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPhone and iOS Product Marketing. “iPhone users always want their content at their fingertips and CarPlay lets drivers use their iPhone in the car with minimized distraction. We have an amazing lineup of auto partners rolling out CarPlay, and we’re thrilled it will make its debut this week in Geneva.”

Apple has led consumer technology integration in the car for more than a decade. CarPlay brings your car and iPhone together for a thoughtful experience that lets drivers focus on driving, while also tapping into everything they want to do with their iPhone.

Once iPhone is connected to a vehicle with CarPlay integration, Siri helps you easily access your contacts, make calls, return missed calls or listen to voicemails. When incoming messages or notifications arrive, Siri provides an eyes-free experience by responding to requests through voice commands, by reading drivers’ messages and letting them dictate responses or simply make a call.

CarPlay makes driving directions more intuitive by working with Maps to anticipate destinations based on recent trips via contacts, emails or texts, and provides routing instructions, traffic conditions and ETA. You can also simply ask Siri and receive spoken turn-by-turn directions, along with Maps, which will appear on your car’s built-in display.

CarPlay gives drivers access to all of their music, podcasts, audiobooks and iTunes Radio℠ with easy navigation through listening choices from the car’s built-in controls or simply by asking Siri to pull up what you’d like to hear. CarPlay also supports select third-party audio apps including Spotify and iHeartRadio, so you can listen to your favorite radio services or sports broadcast apps while driving.

Pricing & Availability
Apple CarPlay is available as an update to iOS 7 and works with Lightning-enabled iPhones, including iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5. CarPlay will be available in select cars shipping in 2014.

Source: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014...n-the-Car.html

What's everyone think about it? It's suppossed to be an overlay UI so it would be supplemental to whatever software future FRS/BRZ headunits may run. Hopefully they offer it for the twins.

[husker741]

I can do everything it offers over the Bluetooth in my car.

[f0rge]

Originally Posted by husker741

I can do everything it offers over the Bluetooth in my car.

No way this is totally different! Apple invented this and it's a revolutionary change to how we'll use phones in our cars! /sarcasm.

They do this with everything, copy and paste was a revolutionary advancement in phones when it came to the iphone, despite every other phone already doing it.

[fatherfork]

I'm looking forward to this. I hope I can get an aftermarket head unit with Carplay on it. I like the iPhone interface and having a simplified version that is updated with my phone OS instead of by the head unit manufacturer (so probably never) sounds really great.

On a side note, if this isn't for you (android phone, etc.), please don't join the conversation. We could stand a little less noise.

[husker741]

Originally Posted by fatherfork

I'm looking forward to this. I hope I can get an aftermarket head unit with Carplay on it. I like the iPhone interface and having a simplified version that is updated with my phone OS instead of by the head unit manufacturer (so probably never) sounds really great.

On a side note, if this isn't for you (android phone, etc.), please don't join the conversation. We could stand a little less noise.

Ah yes, no criticism is allowed in a public forum.

[fatherfork]

Originally Posted by husker741

Ah yes, no criticism is allowed in a public forum.

Don't put words in my mouth. I simply asked politely that you not chime in for reasons of relevant discussion. Follow my request or don't, I never implied that I control a public forum.

Edit: Crap, you got me to engage. I really need to learn from others' mistakes. Reply all you want, but this will be my last.

[mikeTee]

For me personally, it would get rid of the phone mount that I have on my dash. I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of Apple Maps but all things considered the current GPS situation in the BRZ really isn't any better with it's sporadic signal dropping, though YMMV. But if it gives 3rd party developers any easy venue for app development for our car head units, I'm eager to see what follows.

Or they just need to come up with a very good Android headunit and call it a day.

[fatherfork]

Originally Posted by mikeTee

...But if it gives 3rd party developers any easy venue for app development for our car head units, I'm eager to see what follows.

I agree. That may even allow other map applications to use the link. They do with music, so we'll see.

[johnnie]

It's not standard, so it sucks! We need open protocols and standards so i can use the phone i want with whichever car i own at that time.

[f0rge]

Originally Posted by fatherfork

On a side note, if this isn't for you (android phone, etc.), please don't join the conversation. We could stand a little less noise.

Actually my wife and I have so many apple products it's not even funny, including iphones.

But i'm still not so sure what's so great about this compared to bluetooth unless they can increase the sound quality somehow. I usually direct connect my phone via usb because it sounds better.

BTW props to Volvo for using In Flames, Sweden power!

[Dark]

Sound OE companies has Mirrorlink for android for sometimes now, and it does things more than CarPlay. What's the point Apple?

[mikeTee]

Originally Posted by johnnie

It's not standard, so it sucks! We need open protocols and standards so i can use the phone i want with whichever car i own at that time.

From what I understand, the iPhone is doing the processing and displaying of the CarPlay UI, so as I mentioned before, it's in addition to whatever software the factory headunit is going to be running. And even then, it'll probably be an option, not the standard, offering in most of these vehicles so there's no obligation for any future car buyers to have to get this system.

[rice_classic]

"So you can both interact with your Apple CarPlay and your Volvo simultaneously."

...into that tree.


Not a fan of Apple so the only good I can see coming from this is if Google and Microsoft/Nokia jump into the same market.

[enwave]

Originally Posted by husker741

I can do everything it offers over the Bluetooth in my car.

That is true.

But some of us like the smexy interfaces that Apple designs. After clunking around on the BRZ head unit for eight months, and playing with aftermarket head units on and off, I welcome something that looks pretty and functions well in my dash.

Hope this doesn't stay factory exclusive, though I have my doubts that it will ever be available on third party head units.


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