Agreed. Also — everyone's has different taste and preferences so while I appreciate CarPlay a great deal, I also appreciate that it doesn't take over some of the native idrive features.
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Apple Confirms Next-Generation CarPlay Launching in 2024, Reveals New Features in iOS 17.4 Beta
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Not the question you asked. I can easily adjust temp without looking and having to ensure my iPhone is charged and connected. Analog controls work just fine as long as car has sufficient battery power.
Digital is nice but doesn’t replace a proper set of analog controls. ; and Siri doesn’t always understand what i am saying.
I'm in the Bay Area. Trust me -- people LOVE their cars here.
Haha I use to live in the Bay Area. Traffic is a nightmare where I am now...but I don't miss Bay Area rush hour 😂 Cars are definitely the winner out there
Maybe because the majority of us do not live where you do, i think
I didn’t know room temperature was different by zip code.
How can you be so sure when you didn't know that the physical dial had noticeable clicks?
Simple. I determined how the control's worked when I bought the car. Same as you would have to with digital ones.
If you have a physical knob, are you suggesting it doesn’t read out the temperature ANYWHERE in your vehicle? Highly doubtful. Ignore it if you want to, but more than likely there still some digital display with a temperature read out. At least anything made in the last, like, 20 years.
If your vehicle has physical buttons and dials for climate, then your muscle memory still works with CarPlay. I still know how to adjust mine despite having a large touchscreen in the center. I don’t have to look at the screen, but it’s there.
I feel like you’re arguing in bad faith or are being obtuse to try to gain some kind of validation. Especially in response to the fact that there are already CarPlay-compatible vehicles with physical controls for climate that would simply read out to a built-in display because the computer in your car has that information and the new CarPlay will simply have access to that data. Yes, some vehicles will not have physical controls, and many people will likely reject those because they also prefer the tactile feedback of a knob. That’s why so many manufacturers have brought those controls back to work in conjunction with touchscreens. It doesn’t have to be one or the other, no need to create a false dichotomy.
an app to know if your car doors are closed? is this a joke? why would car doors and tire pressure be separate apps? this reeks of being created by non-drivers.
They are separate apps because they are related to different sensor systems. It will make more sense once we have a demo of how all these apps are managed and displayed within CarPlay2, but just because they are separate apps doesn't meant their information wont be displayed in an integrated manner.
But I think it makes more sense to consider them widgets instead of apps.
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Chances are low that the new features would work with aftermarket head units. Mostly because these features come from the vehicle gateway and most (all?) aftermarket head units miss that kind of integration.
Yeah, if a head unit can't access your cameras normally, it probably wont be able to via CP2.
The only thing I can think of is if CP2 uses WiFi access to the vehicle CANBUS Gateway, then it could project the info from the vehicle gateway. But that seems like a pretty big attack vector to open.
When I think of the cars which have replaceable head-units, most of them probably just have one camera if at all. Probably easier to buy a CP2 head-unit which comes with cameras, just like you can now with CP1 head-units; I know that I would rather have a front and rear aftermarket camera on that screen than just the rear factory camera. It's possible a properly hardwired head-unit could talk to the CANBUS gateway if it has the correct translation hardware, but it wouldn't be as easy as plug-and-play.
I would expect this apps also be like the Sidecar.app, just opening on iPad when you choose to use it as a Mac screen. In this case it would show up when you go in reverse
While I fully understand the infotainment aspects of CarPlay, I don’t understand why Apple feels empowered to take over an auto manufacturer’s driving gauges like speedometer, odometer, etc. Stay in your lane, Apple.
They want to provide a unified experience for their users.
What I am really curious about is if this takes off and folks get used to the Apple CarPlay 2 interface, when Apple makes their own vehicle will manufacturers continue to allow CarPlay when it is the interface of a competitor?
Makes sense. Kinda wish there was a standard for passing through this info. Got a Kenwood head unit with an iDatalink Maestro integrator, and it's really cool. Like I said, I wish there was a way to pass the info the Maestro gets to the radio and into CarPlay. Kinda like how HomeKit can integrate with the Thread/Matter devices or whatever.
That’s not what I was suggesting. I meant Apple car play was a way for Apple to beta test features UI integration etc for a car system so that at time of launch of their own car, apple CarPlay is on version 4 and not 1.