I'm hoping Nissan delivers a software update for this. I just bought a car.
Maybe, but I think it depends on how much longer they plan to have the current lot of Nissans for sale. If your model/year will be on sale when they plan to launch this you may be fine, but if they need to do some HW changes, like a special line for that Lightning cable, not the USB AUX port it comes with, then you may be SoL.
According to Apple, CarPlay can access all knobs, buttons and dials controlling an in-car display.
Except for the iDrive controller in BMW and Rolls Royce cars. BMW may have invested too much time and energy (and money) in iDrive development to let Apple wade in and obsolete a huge chunk of its code. Then again, I'm sure dealers hear customers whining each and every day about being forced to buy the "Technology Package" (a $2,150 option) for "Enhanced USB and Bluetooth plus Smartphone Integration" along with "Navigation system w/ touchpad" and "BMW Online and BMW Apps." I'd expect CarPlay to replace BMW Nav and Apps, and Eyes Free to eliminate much of the menu-drill-down navigation required by iDrive.
Maybe dealers will report this dissatisfaction back to Munich, and maybe BMW management will cut a deal with Apple. Who knows?
They should put a touchpad down in the center console where BMW has their controller. I don't want to reach forward to touch the actual screen. I like the screen recessed in the dash so that it is shaded for better contrast and no reflections. In that position it is not convenient to reach out and touch it, especially if you are tall and have the seat all the way back.
They should put a touchpad down in the center console where BMW has their controller. I don't want to reach forward to touch the actual screen. I like the screen recessed in the dash so that it is shaded for better contrast and no reflections. In that position it is not convenient to reach out and touch it, especially if you are tall and have the seat all the way back.
1) A touchpad implies a mouse pointer which I'd think would be more cumbersome to maneuver than simply tapping on a virtually represented item.
2) I hope they include a knob option that will highlight each CarPlay item which can then be selected by pressing the knob.
3) I assume that you'll be able to use Siri commands from the hands-free button on the steering wheel to control most of the items. I'd think this would be the safest option.
Didn't Apple have AirPlay before the Google Play Store?
Not entirely certain. Airplay use to be called AirTunes. Don't know when they changed it or even when Google changed the Android Market to GooglePlay. In any event I think more people would generally associate CarPlay with Google than Apple (PlayMusic, PlayMovies, etc) if they didn't know any different.
EDIT: I see they called it AirPlay at WWDC2011. Maybe it was even earlier than that?
2) I hope they include a knob option that will highlight each CarPlay item which can then be selected by pressing the knob.
I know a lot of people around the forum have little affection for BMW iDrive but it is fine for me. That is exactly how it works, with a knob. I really don't want to touch the screen. It is too far away. So yeah a knob would make sense.
One thing BMW needs to fix is the way it dials #s that have an extension. With iPhone you put a comma and it pauses just long enough to dial the extension but BMW doesn't understand the comma.
Not entirely certain. Airplay use to be called AirTunes. Don't know when they changed it or even when Google changed the Android Market to GooglePlay. In any event I think more people would generally associate CarPlay with Google than Apple (PlayMusic, PlayMovies, etc) if they didn't know any different.
EDIT: I see they called it AirPlay at WWDC2011. Maybe it was even earlier than that?
Wikipedia has AirTunes from 2004 and AirPlay from 2010.
I know a lot of people around the forum have little affection for BMW iDrive but it is fine for me.
Well those people are knobs.
One thing BMW needs to fix is the way it dials #s that have an extension. With iPhone you put a comma and it pauses just long enough to dial the extension but BMW doesn't understand the comma.
Hopefully the system will use iOS to make calls thereby preserving how it dials. I'll have to check that in my car next time, but I think my hands-free shows it "calling" my phone which then the phone does it all, but I can't be certain.
One thing I am certain of is my car's address book system is downright archaic. It only lists the first three numbers for a contact and gives them labels as HOME, WORK, and OTHER; I think in that order regardless of how they are setup in the vCard in Contacts.
Hopefully the system will use iOS to make calls thereby preserving how it dials. I'll have to check that in my car next time, but I think my hands-free shows it "calling" my phone which then the phone does it all, but I can't be certain.
Mine imports all the contacts every time I get in the car which takes awhile because I have maybe a couple hundred contacts. So apparently when I call the car just sends the number straight to the phone just like if I dialed a new number using the on-screen dialer. So maybe it is the iPhone's fault and it doesn't understand the comma when sent directly from the car, only if you are tapping the contact in iOS. Or perhaps the car removes the comma. Now that I think about, that seems more likely.
1) I am surprised there is no mention of BT connectivity, but I wonder if it's just an omission since the devices listed seem to be the ones with BT4.0.
2) I don't know why anyone expected something revolutionary on the dash. It's a touchscreen you access whilst driving so it needs to be clean and simple.
3) I still contend, along with [@]Gatorguy[/@], that any exclusivity will be short-lived and that VW Group will have iOS and the others will Android access.
4) No Rolls Royce? There goes my next car purchase¡
No, because iOS isn't designed to work that way.
If Apple makes devices for proctologists will that be called AssPlay?
Good for Apple! Looks good...Now all we need is tesla to give up on Android.
I know Maps had problems but I do like saying the address to Siri and it just opens and starts. It had a few miss-steps for me early on, but none lately.
I had the Tom Tom App for the iPhone way back in the day and I thought it was brilliant. But I had to type in the street number, then type in the street name. It was not easy to do in the car.
This will certainly influence my next car purchase. It will be a hybrid, probably a Prius or a Hybrid Highlander. Would love to get an all electric but the ranges are limiting. Telsa can go 300 miles but it's a $100,000. There's an electric motorcycle, I'm considering called the Zero, $13,000 and a non-hybrid three wheeler for $6,800 that gets 84 mpg (hwy).
Best.
One would have to persuade Tesla to switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps. Besides being a much less well-tested platform, Apple Maps also doesn't have an API for third parties to write mapping applications using Apple's data.
I’ll add that maybe that internal stereo space could be used as a compartment into which an iDevice could be safely stored. Simple little door or something.
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Maybe, but I think it depends on how much longer they plan to have the current lot of Nissans for sale. If your model/year will be on sale when they plan to launch this you may be fine, but if they need to do some HW changes, like a special line for that Lightning cable, not the USB AUX port it comes with, then you may be SoL.
http://www.apaininthetech.com/home/2014/2/22/apple-iositc-set-to-revolutionize-cars-like-they-did-with-the-ipod
According to Apple, CarPlay can access all knobs, buttons and dials controlling an in-car display.
Except for the iDrive controller in BMW and Rolls Royce cars. BMW may have invested too much time and energy (and money) in iDrive development to let Apple wade in and obsolete a huge chunk of its code. Then again, I'm sure dealers hear customers whining each and every day about being forced to buy the "Technology Package" (a $2,150 option) for "Enhanced USB and Bluetooth plus Smartphone Integration" along with "Navigation system w/ touchpad" and "BMW Online and BMW Apps." I'd expect CarPlay to replace BMW Nav and Apps, and Eyes Free to eliminate much of the menu-drill-down navigation required by iDrive.
Maybe dealers will report this dissatisfaction back to Munich, and maybe BMW management will cut a deal with Apple. Who knows?
I do like the way it looks in the video tho.
They should put a touchpad down in the center console where BMW has their controller. I don't want to reach forward to touch the actual screen. I like the screen recessed in the dash so that it is shaded for better contrast and no reflections. In that position it is not convenient to reach out and touch it, especially if you are tall and have the seat all the way back.
1) A touchpad implies a mouse pointer which I'd think would be more cumbersome to maneuver than simply tapping on a virtually represented item.
2) I hope they include a knob option that will highlight each CarPlay item which can then be selected by pressing the knob.
3) I assume that you'll be able to use Siri commands from the hands-free button on the steering wheel to control most of the items. I'd think this would be the safest option.
Good point.
AirPlay
CarPlay
Coldplay
Kid 'n Play
Not entirely certain. Airplay use to be called AirTunes. Don't know when they changed it or even when Google changed the Android Market to GooglePlay. In any event I think more people would generally associate CarPlay with Google than Apple (PlayMusic, PlayMovies, etc) if they didn't know any different.
EDIT: I see they called it AirPlay at WWDC2011. Maybe it was even earlier than that?
2) I hope they include a knob option that will highlight each CarPlay item which can then be selected by pressing the knob.
I know a lot of people around the forum have little affection for BMW iDrive but it is fine for me. That is exactly how it works, with a knob. I really don't want to touch the screen. It is too far away. So yeah a knob would make sense.
One thing BMW needs to fix is the way it dials #s that have an extension. With iPhone you put a comma and it pauses just long enough to dial the extension but BMW doesn't understand the comma.
Well those people are knobs.
Hopefully the system will use iOS to make calls thereby preserving how it dials. I'll have to check that in my car next time, but I think my hands-free shows it "calling" my phone which then the phone does it all, but I can't be certain.
One thing I am certain of is my car's address book system is downright archaic. It only lists the first three numbers for a contact and gives them labels as HOME, WORK, and OTHER; I think in that order regardless of how they are setup in the vCard in Contacts.
Hopefully the system will use iOS to make calls thereby preserving how it dials. I'll have to check that in my car next time, but I think my hands-free shows it "calling" my phone which then the phone does it all, but I can't be certain.
Mine imports all the contacts every time I get in the car which takes awhile because I have maybe a couple hundred contacts. So apparently when I call the car just sends the number straight to the phone just like if I dialed a new number using the on-screen dialer. So maybe it is the iPhone's fault and it doesn't understand the comma when sent directly from the car, only if you are tapping the contact in iOS. Or perhaps the car removes the comma. Now that I think about, that seems more likely.
Good for Apple! Looks good...Now all we need is tesla to give up on Android.
I know Maps had problems but I do like saying the address to Siri and it just opens and starts. It had a few miss-steps for me early on, but none lately.
I had the Tom Tom App for the iPhone way back in the day and I thought it was brilliant. But I had to type in the street number, then type in the street name. It was not easy to do in the car.
This will certainly influence my next car purchase. It will be a hybrid, probably a Prius or a Hybrid Highlander. Would love to get an all electric but the ranges are limiting. Telsa can go 300 miles but it's a $100,000. There's an electric motorcycle, I'm considering called the Zero, $13,000 and a non-hybrid three wheeler for $6,800 that gets 84 mpg (hwy).
Best.
One would have to persuade Tesla to switch from Google Maps to Apple Maps. Besides being a much less well-tested platform, Apple Maps also doesn't have an API for third parties to write mapping applications using Apple's data.
Here we go again.
http://www.fusionelectronics.com/marine/products/700-series/ms-ip700]http://www.fusionelectronics.com/marine/products/700-series/ms-ip700