sirozha

Having the same experience with the Jelly phone on Kickstarter. Bunch of promises and shipping notifications on Kickstarter, but no product in hand. 

big kc said:

$900? They're smoking crack. It's at least 2x more expensive than it should be (or likely needs to be), and still lacks a volume knob, which is a huge annoyance. Somebody needs to come out with a similar unit, mechless (no CD transport) for simplicity and mounting ease (unit can be very shallow w/o the transport), at $450. With a freakin volume knob. They'd sell like hotcakes. Alpine won't sell many of these at this crazy price.

You can control CarPlay units via the steering wheel control, so the volume can be adjusted by the driver on the steering wheel.

CarPlay may not be worth $900, but Android Auto absolutely is. I have a 2006 Lexus GS300 that has a horrible head unit. It's just bad. The audio system is very good (Mark Levinson), but the head unit is a disaster. I have been suffering with this head unit ever since I bought the car (used) 8 years ago. I would love to get a great head unit for Android Auto (CarPlay) and keep the car for another 8 years. The car is great, but the lack of smartphone integration and the horrible head unit makes me want to get rid of it. If I could spend $1000 to have the infotainment modernized in this car, I would gladly pay it. Unfortunately, there is no way to do this because it's too deeply integrated with the car's climate controls. 

For folks in my boat with older cars, these $1000 head units that support Android Auto and Car Play (especially wireless ones), are a steal. It's much much cheaper than trading this car for a new one. 

Wi-Fi Assist is able to route traffic via cellular signal when Wi-Fi has no connectivity to the Internet. It's really pretty simple to implement. One way to do this is to ping an Apple server on the Internet via Wi-Fi. If the server is not reachable, route to the Internet via cellular. This way, both Wi-Fi and cellular can be connected. Wi-Fi could be used for communicating with the Wi-Fi direct device, and cellular can be used for communicating with the Internet.

Rayz2016 said:

sirozha said:

I have. AAPL gained 15% since September 2012. Great achievement. Cook should be ousted.

Then dump your stock. Simple. 

No, I want to dump Cook.