polymnia

Andrew_OSU said:

polymnia said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Yess!

This would be perfection!

They would also spend way less money building an iOS app over a custom system.

Not so fast. The manufacturers will always need to provide some non-CarPlay interface. So manufacturers will have to maintain 1: the native interface 2: CarPlay and 3: Android Auto (I know we don’t acknowledge it here, but it is just as popular as CarPlay based on my recent car buying experience)

i think it’s great that the manufacturers will do this, but I’m under no illusions of it being easier or cheaper. 

These are good points and while it technically would be another layer to maintain, the CarPlay interface is meant to be parred back with only the vital controls here (such as radio and basic climate controls). None of that would be (theoretically) changing going forward so it wouldn’t be a hassle to maintain. Plus, they rarely do software updates as-is so it isn’t like they spend a ton of time in there changing it.

I dont think it will be cheaper for them, but I dont think it will be too significant an expense. Take devs off their own platforms like Sync and Entune for a bit. They need so much help that they aren’t getting fixed any time soon.

I disagree. It will be a significant expense. There needs to be some basic non-mobile-integrated infotainment capability, so Entune or Sync will still need to be integrated into cars for the foreseeable future and each car will need a custom integration setup that someone has to build & test. Maybe they will stop adding features to the built-in software (it could be argued that innovation on these software systems ended years ago) but all cars need to be fully functional without a mobile device to run the screen, so as long as next year's car is different than this year's car, there will be work to maintain the OEM system.

Is it trivial for someone to program all the functions of a car into Siri & Assistant's voice control system? THat's just one example. There is a lot of custom work for each vehicle. Passing through the various birds-eye camera systems, radar collision avoidance messages, secondary screens, motorized doors...the list goes on.

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Yess!

This would be perfection!

They would also spend way less money building an iOS app over a custom system.

Not so fast. The manufacturers will always need to provide some non-CarPlay interface. So manufacturers will have to maintain 1: the native interface 2: CarPlay and 3: Android Auto (I know we don’t acknowledge it here, but it is just as popular as CarPlay based on my recent car buying experience)

i think it’s great that the manufacturers will do this, but I’m under no illusions of it being easier or cheaper. 

mike54 said:

How much R&D money do they need to make up-to-date affordable headless mac?

None. Intel has you covered with the NUC. 

If, on the other hand, you want a Mac, you’ll be waiting until they integrate a T2 chip, maybe make the whole thing ARM, and probably engineer something totally gratuitous, yet amazing. And it likely won’t be affordable to the bottom-feeding market for headless Macs who are continuously (and amusingly) disappointed in the lack of concern Apple has for their plight. 

nunzy said:

If they think that a war chest of a hundred million dollars is enough to fight against Apple, they are crazy. Apple will spend five times as much as that to crush them.

Tim will see to it.

Just like Apple crushed all the WiFi router vendors?

i chose to reply to this comment, but I question the tone of AI’s coverage of Sonos and the commenters here.

Apppe and Sonos are continuously cast as enemies, with one needing to win and the other lose. I know people are fixated on winners and losers, I’m just not sure it applies on this case. 

rob53 said:

SpamSandwich said:

If such a card is capable of 128 terabytes, that will make continuous HD recording everywhere commonplace.

... and how are they going to fit 128TB on an SD card? 

Probably the same way they did 20 years ago when some else asked how we’d ever get to 128GB.