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Oh - and the fully adaptive air-suspension, standard apparently on US models, must surely make a big difference in any heavy bev.

I've never had more beautiful, eligible young women following me than since the takeover. I hadn't even altered my 60s year old looking profile pic and I don't have a blue tick mark. Must be my (very) hidden charm coming to the surface.

VCRandom said:

eriamjh said:

I’m confused. Is the Phone powering the car’s display of non-CarPlay apps? Is a phone required? I understand how the communication bus contains all the info that is displayed, but where does the car’s display start and end and what does CarPlay add to it? Is it just a framework for the graphics?

Right now, CarPlay is primarily an interface for your phone data to appear on a car entertainment display.

Going forward, for the car brands that support it, much of the cars performance data and 'optional' controls are funneled to the iPhone, which then take over multiple displays within the car -including the instrument cluster.

The difference is that current CarPlay runs on the entertainment portion of the car, future CarPlay takes over the instrument cluster for speed/performance info display and other car functions like taking over the heat/cooling controls, etc.

In the event CarPlay is not in use, the car has a default set of display stuff.

CarPlay is a huge deal. My view is that Apple should give these early adopters every possible assistance, including licenses sans fees and deep technical support at every level. These companies should be rewarded in every possible way for at least including CarPlay even if only at a higher level. Except for Tesla, EV manufacturers do not have the capacity to create their own driver facing operating systems and opt (almost?) entirely for android, which can be buggy, slow and ripe for hacking. The low-level real-time operating systems that control vehicle functioning have been developed over decades and are very, very refined and reliable. If only Volvo and some of the other manufacturers would offer CarPlay as an option. Apple could do very well with CarPlay even without introducing their own vehicles.

ralphie said:

Wrong on so many levels.  More like he owes Apple and Steve a debt of gratitude.  He was a nobody until Steve plucked him out of obscurity, and provided him great direction .

No. Ive and Jobs built on each other's strengths and as a team (with many others obviously), achieved remarkable goals. This obviates too the 'Ive was only interested in form' argument too - you can be certain that no design elements got through development to market that did not meet with Job's approval and he was very much 'form and function'. Not surprised that Ive thinks of his partner and friend of old often.

mattinoz said:

www1111222 said:

the people in the helicopter saved him, not the watch.  Back in the days when people used landlines to call the emergency services, we didn't give the credit to the home-phone, we gave it to the respondents.

Yes if he took his landline phone out swimming with it could have saved him. 

I'm old enough to remember being so impressed by Dick Tracy making a call from his wrist. Today, Tracy would be mind-blown by this capability.

The issue that I have with this advertisement is that once the helicopter arrived, there wasn't more than a ripple in the ocean below. Perhaps it had calmed down by then

Is there word on how this purchase by Apple affects those of us who previously purchased Pixelmator(Pro?)?