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  • GM ditching CarPlay & Android Auto for Google-built infotainment system

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    M68000 said:
    I’m amazed at how important the phone interface with a vehicle is to many of you.   It’s laughable to me that it is a deciding factor to buying a vehicle or not.  Perhaps many of us have become too dependent and even addicted to our phones.
    Have you actually tried CarPlay, or AndroidWhatever?

    My first experience was in a rental, in a city I'd never driven in, about five years ago.  I just wanted to charge my phone.  :-)

    The CarPlay navigation experience was head and shoulders above any bespoke nav system I'd used before.  To this day, it's reassuring to at least have an idea of my arrival times, and alternate routes, even if it's a route I've driven hundreds of times.

    As far as entertainment goes, it's nice to catch up on my local sportstalk programs via podcasts, where there are fewer commercials than terrestrial radio, and I can pause/resume at will.

    What you call addiction... is actually evolution.
    ravnorodom

  • Apple launches Apple Music Classical app

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    A dedicated TVOS app would be a nice tip of the hat - I don’t necessarily want to be tethered to AirPlay.
    RonnyDaddylwiokiehtanlotonesStrangeDaysretrogustorezwitsAlex1Ndoozydozenwatto_cobra

  • Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free

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    DAalseth said:
    jimh2 said:
    We should be paid to use Outlook. All of MS products are bloated to the point 90% of the features are worthless to most users. 
    That’s a major reason I don’t use Office Apps. sure I could use Word to do Legal Footnotes. I don’t ever need to do those. Sure I could use Excel to do Statistical functions. I don’t need to do that. The functions I need are buried under those that I don’t. Add to that the Ribbon, the single worst user interface ever created by man, that Microsoft took and set up in the absolutely worst way possible, and you see why I hate Office Apps. 
    I use Office at work (always have), and to this day I despise that ribbon, from the day I first encountered it in 2007.  You speak the truth.
    zeus423watto_cobrajony0

  • Wired CarPlay vs. wireless - the pros and cons

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    Another vote for wired... even with tire and  road noise, lossless Apple audio makes a big difference in my listening experience.

    Won't go wireless until I can't tell the difference (not just the audio, the lack of lag and so on).
    Anilu_777waveparticlewatto_cobra

  • Google bizarrely believes that iPhone photos can be fixed on a Pixel

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    So this is all about photobombing? Only works with non-complex backgrounds? This is such a rare occurrence in real life. Yawn.
    ITGUYINSDwatto_cobra