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Luis.A.Masanti said:

Maybe it is too late… but we must recognize that the pre-AI Siri was more of a Voice User Interface than an ‘assistant.’ With your keyboard and mouse you search and receive web info! (Web browsers only remember you thru tracking ads!)

Now… or in a near futue… AI-Siri will become a real ‘assistant.’
The best part is that it will preserve your privacy… like a real personal assistant. When your assistant does not know the answer… he/she/it will go to the library or the encyclopedia… well… to ChatGPT by now…

Siri was using AI even before Apple bought it. It is a project developed by the SRI International Artificial Intelligence Center. Simply because the needle of what we expect from AI in the Real has moved considerably doesn't mean that AI wasn't being utilized.

rob53 said:

Does anyone know how much Apple charges for CarPlay?

Apple doesn't charge anything for CarPlay. I don't see how they could since the UI is in your iPhone and everything it run from your iPhone. The same goes for Android Auto. All they're doing is allowing the connected device to  use the display and interact with some controls in a very specific way. The auto maker incurs a cost for having to add this feature to the automobile, even if it's an overall minor one.

AppleZulu said:

Who wants to bet that the data-sharing tick-box under "grok settings" is wired to precisely nothing?

I'm with you. Musk is the second most popular liar, conman, and narcissist in the media so there's no way I'm going to trust that this will actually do anything to protect user rights.

eriamjh said:

I have Carplay in the 2017 Chevy Bolt EV.   Now, the Bolt doesn't have any mapping abilities or charge and route planning.

Neither does Car Play.   

All it has is Maps, for navigation, which I use... sometimes.   If I play music, it's either iTunes or Youtube Music.  And those don't really require anything on the screen.   

Apple wants OEMs to adapt Carplay as an easy way to slap an interface on their cars instead of developing expensive interfaces in-house.   Instead, the OEMs mostly do a half-ass job and no one notices how bad they are because most don't care.

Car Play came out of the dead Apple EV.   And it probably won't get very far either.

1) CarPlay was released over a decade ago. It is not the result of Project Titan being shuttered.

2) It's not a feature that I use, but I'm under the impression that EV charging was added several years ago, with real time Ev charging station availability was added last year with iOS 17.

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StrangeDays said:

These dudes still just don’t get it. I don’t want to use their coming-along infotainment systems. I don’t want to use a Rivian mapping app. I want to use the polished one I already use every day, that is feature-rich, and integrates with my devices and events. 

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

They do get it. They don’t want to use apples proprietary software when trying to have you navigate the functions of the car. Why do you think Tesla hasn’t enabled android or CarPlay? Because these companies are putting the entire settings into the screen

You know as much about how CarPlay and Android Auto work as you about formatting a reply on a text forum. CarPlay isn't installed into the vehicle so they aren't using it. They are merely allowing a connected iPhone to send the CarPlay UI via USB or WiFi to a vehicle's display. It's effectively allows the iPhone to have a second display with a UI and some tie-ins to some basic controls.

When I rent a car I don't have to figure out how to use their clunky infotainment system, I simply plug in my iPhone and I get a system I recognize with addresses via typing or Siri that aren't being saved into the car, all of which adds safety and security for the driver.

Android Auto works the same way for most people, but I think Android has partnered with at least one automobile makers to supply the infotainment system, too.