JonG

jesusfreak said:

Perfectly safe in jolly ol England.  No one is allowed to have firearms there.

Oh yeah, car thieves are so well known for obeying the law.

9secondkox2 said:

Good. Kids are more important than profits. Let kids enjoy a wholesome childhood for crying out loud. 

You can have all the “parental control” products in the world and they won’t get used if it’s not constantly reminder and dead simple. Most parents are either too lazy or too tech averse to set it up. 

Age verification makes this constantly reminder and dead simple. Kudos to Texas. 

Why is it we expect companies to parent our kids? Why should companies be forced to make up for the fact that some parents are lazy? Why should my experience as a parent of two teen girls be degraded (having to setup all this extra verification) because other parents are lazy and can't spend 10 minutes with some AI bot giving them step-by-step on how to setup a family account and control the logins of their kids?

You want to say that kids under a certain age can't buy a phone, or device, on their own? great. Regulate the sale of the product, which is the purview of government. Don't regulate what I do with it after it is purchased, that infringes on my rights to do what I want with my property.

Also isn't Texas, and Mr. Abbott, all about parental rights to allow us to do what we want with our children? Oh wait, that's only as long as you do it the way they want.

Even if it were possible, Apple is in the midst of making a shift as a hardware company to a hardware & services company.  iCloud+ subscriptions for storage will more than make up for the much smaller percentage of people reducing that demand. 

Also, there is a cite for "people not needing as much space." Which is simply not true.  Storage gets cheaper every year, but the upgrade of local iPhone storage does not.  How many people at the higher levels (not legacy) maybe sync to a cloud service (whether iCloud, Google, or another), or backup to a hard drive or memory stick?

This "study" reeks of cherry picking and selection bias to reach it's pre-determined click-bait result that a company that makes hundreds of billions of dollars a year is in trouble.  

To be clear, they aren't "paying" anything.  They are offering a discount on future billing for the inconvenience.  So if you terminate service with them, you don't get anything.

That is not a payment, it's a very cheap sounding credit. 

ihatescreennames said:

alandail said:

Anilu_777 said:

One of the many reasons I will never buy a Tesla. Having CarPlay available means I’m getting access to what I already pay for: Apple Music - plus messaging etc that I use many times a day while commuting. No CarPlay, no sale. 

There is no need for CarPlay on a Tesla.

My car has CarPlay and we use it all the time. One thing I like about it is if I ask my HomePod for the hours of a store and then head there, when I get into the car CarPlay offers to give me directions to that store. That works great for me at our second home where I’m less familiar with the area and tend to use navigation more often. Another thing it does is offer to give me navigation to the next appointment on my calendar. That works without having to share my calendar with a third party. We also use the HomePod  Intercom feature quite a bit. For example, if I’ve run out to pick up some take-out I can send an Intercom announcement that I’m almost home and then the table is set and everyone is ready when I walk in the door. Does that stuff work with Tesla?

I've owned my Model Y since 2019.  Originally I had a separate screen for CarPlay because I thought I couldn't live without it.  I was wrong.  Sold the adapter after 3 months of not using it.  I miss CarPlay a little, but the navigation in the car is much better for an EV, because of the automatic integration of the charging network.  When I need to charge on a long trip (charge at home when I am not traveling far) it automatically routes me and pre-heats the battery for charging.  I've run it alongside Waze and others, and the routing is just as good if not better.

It syncs my calendar via the app and auto-routes to my next appointment, and will automatically pick up my habits and route me to the train station first thing in the morning, and back to the house at night.  I have a bunch of Shortcut automations as well that pre-heat/pre-cool the car before I leave in the morning, remind me to charge at night if I am below a certain level.  In addition I can use Siri to open/close the trunk.  The auto-tie-in with my garage door means that as I pull into the driveway the door opens for me, and after I pull out of the garage it auto closes (unless I manually cancel either).

The voice command inside the Tesla is lacking, I will totally admit.  But Siri works fine.  To your example about take out, I have a Shortcut that I've setup so that when I say "Hey Siri, Take-Out Coming Home" it both sends a pre-recorded message to the whole home intercom as well as texting my wife and kids, for the same reason you mention.  It also auto shares my ETA in the message so they know when I'll be back.

The integration isn't perfect, but it certainly works well enough that I only miss CarPlay when I'm working with Podcasts and Audible.  However, Apple Podcasts is coming out native before the end of the year, so at least one down!