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andrewj5790 said:

dominosixtyseven said:

Typical DeD article.

Right. Full of facts. 

 Facts...the immortal enemy of the Samsung apologist.

F**k off, Germany. How about all German car companies start offering 7 year warranties?

After the Apple Watch came out I remember seeing articles up to two years later proclaiming it a flop. Not everything is an overnight success, including the iPhone. 

Kuyangkoh said:

jib said:

Agreed. And I wouldn't buy a car from either company.
And definitely not a car without CarPlay!

True….dont buy if you cannot afford

They didn't say they couldn't afford it, but you knew that already.

sdw2001 said:

quakerotis said:

you wanted your comic book villain?

Yeah, it’s not like this a normal business competition dispute or anything. 

Yeah it’s not like one of the parties is trying to use their influential position in the government to their advantage or anything. 

dantheman827 said:

Be sure to contact your members of the senate if you're in the US to urge them to support this bill!

No thanks.

jedijeff said:

This new button seems like a great place to bring TouchID back instead of forcing us to use FaceID,  

Forced to use FaceID? You’re not even forced to use an iPhone 

At least now we can move on from the pretense that this is about the users. Epic and Spotify want to profit from the App Store for free, period. 

Some of these comments are absolutely clueless. Car infotainment systems by and large SUCK. I own two Porsches and their infotainment systems are trash; I’d be using Ultra from day one. The digital dash on a Mercedes and Audi are an abortion…CarPlay Ultra would be a dramatic improvement. They know this and that’s why they’re blocking it. 

avon b7 said:

rob53 said:

I really don't care about how many phones China has sold. All this garbage about percentages. Apple sold 45.2M phones in China. That's still a lot. Apple continues to sell millions of phones of every year. I'd rather see total sales figures than percentages of phones, especially when you include garbage phones that are only(?) sold in China. 

Definitely not 'garbage' and if you want a folding or flip phone, Apple isn't even in that game. Neither is it in the 'smart car' market so if you're looking for that you only have a very limited Car Play option while others offer the whole integration feast. 

What exactly is the point of these examples? Flip phone sales are a rounding error and not nearly as popular as Samsung and Chinese OEMs would like you to believe. And CarPlay is an add-on and not a product.