mobird

Put the SiriusXM app on your iPhone and do everything from the app via Carplay and you also get better quality streaming (your choice) than what comes through the crap receiver that comes installed by the manufacturer.
I understand your frustration with the climate controls and other vehicle specific controls, this is a peak of the lack of cooperation between vehicle manufacturers and Apple...

robin huber said:

I like my CarPlay, but it can be clumsy going back and forth between it and manufacturers UI for climate control and other auto functions. Worst problem for me is CPs lousy Sirius XM app—practically useless. I have to leave CP navigation and go back to Chevy UI to change channels. A pain. 

Roderikus said:

lkrupp said:

But Apple would need the cooperation of the auto manufacturers to do this, right?

In fact  has been trying for years and years to get deeper integration with car mgt. and navigation - to no avail.
Car manufacturerers are doing their utmost to keep them out of the driving seat and offer their own, more sophisticted and integrated solutions.

Unfortunately, this is very much the case.

@omasou you are on to something here-
Apple needs to develop their own ODBII interface device that ties in with Carplay and at the same time pulls the vehicle data from the ODBII port. I don't know if anything (vehicle features, etc.) are able to be "modified" by using the ODBII port. Through AT&T you can purchase a Harman Spark that pulls a bunch of vehicle data that is read on a compatible smart phone and can also setup many monitoring features.
https://car.harman.com/solutions/smart-auto/harman spark
https://www.att.com/buy/connected-devices-and-more/harman-spark-black.html

omasou said:

Skeptical said:

I have to disagree about Car Play being available to higher end cars. In my experience, Car Play has been available in most cars, especially if they are new. 

I think Apple has demonstrated with music and navigation how Apple CarPlay can play nicely w/the manufacture's systems and removed some fear from the manufacture that they will be reliant on Apple to provide a UI for their cars.

The ODBII interface allows Apple or anyone to read car parameters, speed, etc. but I don't believe and the article mentions there is not a standard across vendors, e.g. getCurrentSpeed(). Additionally, some features are secured and will require the manufacture to provide open access.

Don't forget that the
"million-dollar equipment" is going to want to track you...

MacsWithPenguins said:

We take our super-computer smartphones for granted now and people don’t give it much thought — how much power is inside them. However, with a smartwatch .. cramming so much intelligence into a wrist watch (which is likely going to get thinner over time, as graphene batteries are introduced in these devices), is somehow more impressive to me and I understand how medical professionals initially are doubting the capabilities of such small devices, until they see it in action and compare it to million-dollar equipment. I myself have followed the tech industry since the early 1990s to different degrees and I usually start out not overestimating the power, while keeping an open mind about the possibilities that might be in there.

Anyone wonder what size an MRI machine would be, if it was to be developed by a Silicon Valley company? I know nothing about them and not going to pretend I do, but I do wonder how today’s machines from say Philips or the likes would compare to something made by Google X (https://x.company) or some tech startup? Of course, from a humoristic view, these tech-focused machines would require constant software updates despite being mission-critical devices and would lose software support after 6 months, when version 2 of the hardware makes the first one obsolete.