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  • Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach

    migselv said:
    mike1 said:
    flagel said:
    it is ludicrous for a car manufacturer to give Apple access to all its car systems, which will invariably lead to Apple becoming the gatekeeper to the entire tech stack of a car. This in addition to the branding impact. CarPlay is not the end of evolution, for example, the music app is well on CarPlay. Audi music controls are much better. 
    Who said all? We’re talking about user-facing information systems. Car manufacturers have farmed out components and subsystems from day one. Brakes, batteries, transmissions, gauges, radios, generators, on and on. More to the point, putting Bose, Harmon-Kardon and many other name brand audio systems is a selling point. Why should this be any different?
    Branded audio is nowhere near as involved or complicated as a complete handover of the car's entire user interface. Of course, the car companies use subcontractors for many subsystems, but they still retain control over the way they operate, look and feel in their own vehicles. For example, Harman (parent company of Harman Kardon audio) provides the basic electronics infrastructure for many car brands, but the car companies control the integration and UI aspects. 
    First off Harman Kardon's parent company is Samsung and the audio systems are highly integrated in the cars infotainment systems and is often designed to look like a part of the overall "experience"

    The article states: Car manufacturers Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volvo, Polestar, and Renault told the Financial Times that they have no interest to include CarPlay Ultra support in their vehicles. The list includes manufacturers that Apple previously indicated were going to use the software. 

    Funnily enough those are all Google worshipers in the sense that the all have based their systems om Android Automotive, one could easily suspect that there is a clause in the contract with Goole that states that CarPlay Ultra is not allowed (or they have made it very difficult to implement)
    A vehicle cannot use BOTH Android Automotive and CarPlay Ultra at the same time, as both are infotainment OS'es. One or the other. Google wouldn't be paying an OEM using Android Automotive not to use CarPlay Ultra too. I suspect you don't understand what the two systems are. CarPlay will run happily with Android Automotive, Google doesn't restrict it.  
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  • Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach

    IreneW said:
    Both Renault and Volvo are mentioned in the article, and both of them are flagship partners implementing Android Automotive.
    So it is not a question of total control, I guess, but in what way the product is offered.
    There's a good reason for that. Android Automotive does not require the manufacturer to commit to Google services. It can offer most if not all the same UX benefits of Car Play Ultra while letting the manufacturers determine the services. Android Automotive is also user-friendly for both iPhone and Android owners.  Want to use CarPlay under Android Automotive, no problem.

    I don't know whether Car Play Ultra offers the same freedom, but perhaps someone here knows the facts. My sense is it does not, thus more reticence on the part of automakers to rely on Car Play Ultra integration.
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  • Courts say AI training on copyrighted material is legal

    sunman42 said:
    If everyone who writes a comment on this page will send a fee to Dr Seuss for learning from his books to read and speak, then I will pay attention to their views if they oppose AI learning from published sources. But if you aren't willing to pay everyone that you learn from, for every word that comes out of your mouth, then I don't see why AI should have to pay either. Next, are we going to charge aliens for learning English by reading the radio waves that are being sent into deep space?
    That’s the point, though: libraries, schools, or whatever grownup bought that book that helped you learn to read paid Dr. Seuss’s publisher, who paid him and his agent. And school teachers, under the fair use clause, could make copies of excerpts of those books to help in reading lessons. Where does any AI outfit other than Apple pay for anything the engines are scraping?

    But you’re on the right track on one thing: we should definitely start beaming Dr. Seuss books to the stars.
    Google pays for some training data, signing licensing deals, as does OpenAI.
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  • Apple's chip chief says he wants AI chip design, but he already has it

    The author may, unintentionally or not, be conflating terms. Just as all horses have a relationship to the category of animal, adaptive AI has a relationship to machine learning. As with horses, the opposite is NOT true. All animals are not horses, and old machine learning operations are not the same as adaptive AI, or even AI as a whole for that matter. Apple hopes to correct that by leaning into it for upcoming chip designs.

    While Apple has used machine learning-based software, which is unable to adapt to unexpected outcomes, it hasn't yet used the idea of a system that can continuously learn and improve its chip design autonomously, aka Adaptive AI, for the task.  
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  • Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China

    AppleZulu said:
    Business-wise, makes sense for the family organization to do this. Capitalize on popularity and make some money. 
    No, it doesn’t make sense, because that’s unethical and wrong. It’s why we ask presidents to divest prior to coming into office. It only makes sense if one is void of ethics and doesn’t mind doing wrong. 
    Is the president involved? I thought his family took it over in 2017. Or is the family not allowed to make a marketing connection to the fact that their father was and is the President? Donald Trump Jr. is not Donald Trump Sr. 
    You thought wrong. Yes, the president is involved. He is enriching himself while in office, profiting from the very same industries which he affects with tariffs, executive orders and social media posts. He is doing crypto currency deals with foreign countries while making state visits. 

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/05/06/trump-organization-admits-president-still-controls-his-business-in-new-filing/


    So we are using British rules now?
    No, common-sense. If it walks like a duck....
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