luke hambly

tht said:

You guys need to be mindful that the blood oxygen feature is only disabled in the USA. It works everywhere else in the world, and Apple Watches are being sold with the feature today. 

libertymatters said:

There is simply no trust for smart home devices.  No thanks.

From everything I’ve read the car manufacturers want to force people into subscription models for additional revenue streams. Tesla may have more information available but they already have the subscription model. 

I’d suggest the car manufacturers keep in their lane and leave the interface to the experts. 

I’m with everyone else regarding car selection. When I took the model 3 for a test drive, I was willing to overlook many, what I believe, were many missed opportunities, but no CarPlay was a deal breaker for me. I’m curious to see how much competition they need before rethinking it themselves. 

rob53 said:

Does anyone know how much Apple charges for CarPlay? I'm sure most car manufacturers want the cheapest costing parts in their vehicles so I assume most use some form of free/cheap Android system with the least amount of programming necessary. I have an aftermarket Alpine deck which didn't cost that much (~$500 a few years ago) but that cost is probably 3x more than the vehicle manufacturer wants to pay. My deck connects to the OBD connecter providing a limited amount of vehicle information. It could easily provide much more information without much more programming costs. Of course, the vehicle manufacturers don't want customers having free access to engine codes to see what's wrong, they want to force the customers to get their car serviced. It's the same with CarPlay. CarPlay could easily be enhanced (where is this upgrade???) to provide access to everything in the vehicle without it costing very much but of course these car manufacturers don't want Apple to have anything to do with monitoring vehicles, primarily because they don't want Apple's products to show limitations and failures in the vehicles. I've seen custom-built EVs include way more features that monitor everything in the car, not just the few things ICE manufacturers want the customer to see so it can be done if they want to. Tesla displays everything about the car on a screen, why can't other manufacturers do the same thing? CarPlay is only one feature in a vehicle but car manufacturers are stuck in the Henry Ford era where everything is built the same way with no additional features.

t-bone said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

I think I was  one of ten people that actually signed up
for eWorld. 

I’m another. 

Cheers!

This brings up the other me.com accounts as well.