redraider11

There’s only a couple things I really care about with CarPlay right now. One is for an Apple approved dongle, whether it be 1st or 3rd party, for wireless CarPlay in older cars. The other is to have the current temperature on the CarPlay home screen. An awesome feature that will probably never happen would be for CarPlay to have access to the GPS in my car, so when we go somewhere with spotty cell service I can still get navigation with Apple Maps or Waze. 

seanismorris said:

I’ve never had a problem finding installed apps.  The floating video is a feature I want to turn off.  It’s second only to auto playing videos in annoyance.

The App Store on the other hand... unless you already know the name of the app, it’s a waste of time.  You’re better off searching Google.

You must be fun at parties. 

This is only getting traction because Apple publishes the cut they get from developers. Why don’t ALL retail outlets just be required to show the markup on all of their products and then people will really see that Apple doesn’t take any more or less then other stores? I mean, Best Buy basically marks up cables for TVs like 90%. People are so freaking ignorant to how the world works it’s ridiculous. These are Apple’s devices and Apple’s stores, they can do what the hell they want. Don’t like it? Then there are other options. It’s that simple. Idiots. 

lkrupp said:

In my opinion, until the human driver is completely eliminated from the equation the autonomous vehicle is a pipe dream. I watched a PBS documentary about the status of the technology. The really interesting part concerned interviews with the test vehicle drivers who reported that the super cautious nature of the software caused road rage in human drivers. They also reported that some drivers (aka assholes) intentionally tried to run them off the road or get the vehicle to crash. Humans are emotional, irrational, evil by nature. And as I have said before no self-driving car would have a chance against an 80 year old blue hair diving her 1975 Buick Electra gunboat.

The only way self driving cars will ever be a thing is if they are connected to every other car around them so they can talk to each other about changing lanes, etc. It will be a long time before all of the cars or at least 80-90% are replaced by cars that can do this, so self driving is still pretty far off despite what people want us to believe.

svanstrom said:

acheron2018 said:

If you want sole control of the App Store you don’t get to ban people you don’t like.

So your freedom loving perspective is that the government are to control all businesses in the sense that all businesses are to be forced to spend money on developing their products to be open for other companies to profit from, even when that lowers the quality and security of the products?

It's not enough that people are free to not spend like 1k+ USD on an iPhone?

I think his point is that you don’t get to be a platform claiming to be for free speech and then ban people or ideas you disagree with. Either you’re an open platform or an editorial, but you can’t be both. For instance AT&T is protected from being sued from anything that is done on their network because they are merely a platform for communication and free speech, but the NYT is an editorial and must be vigilant about what they publish because they can be sued for slander and what not. Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. are having their cake and eating it too because they have these platforms supposedly for “free speech” but then continue to edit out what they don’t like and/or prop up certain view points they agree with to make them more noticeable on their platforms.