Ian Schmidt
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Right, CarPlay is a superset of Siri Eyes Free. Either way it's good to have.
The other thing to consider is the regular updates provided by smartphone makers. Smartphone users (especially Apple) have become accustomed to yearly, significant updates of the OS. Automakers, on the other hand, have a “planned obsolescence” business model. Unless automakers want to start putting much stronger processors in their infotainment systems, I doubt a yearly update scheme would even be possible for them. Except, maybe, for the top of their ranges, like the LS.
Imagine what capabilities iOS or Android will have eight years from now and realize a car’s OS is not likely to change noticeably during that time.
The other thing to consider is the regular updates provided by smartphone makers. Smartphone users (especially Apple) have become accustomed to yearly, significant updates of the OS. Automakers, on the other hand, have a “planned obsolescence” business model. Unless automakers want to start putting much stronger processors in their infotainment systems, I doubt a yearly update scheme would even be possible for them. Except, maybe, for the top of their ranges, like the LS.
Imagine what capabilities iOS or Android will have eight years from now and realize a car’s OS is not likely to change noticeably during that time.
The electronics system that drives the vehicle itself is isolated from the infotainment, so OTA updates will not cause a car to be undrivable or unsafe. They will have tons of quirks that annoy the heck of the owner, if they don't make sure these updates work. Knowing TMC's standards, they will probably not do QA tests with their customers. The problem with Tesla is that these Beta version softwares not only control the infotainment, but also the drivetrain and safety systems, which is something a traditional automaker will never do.it is also impossible to use your 8 year phone with new features, so thats a moot point. Heck, even 3 year old is a problem.
If manufacturers would follow Apple model, then you would throw away your car after 3-4 years because it would take 15 seconds to turn on vehicle.
If manufacturers would follow Apple model, then you would throw away your car after 3-4 years because it would take 15 seconds to turn on vehicle.
You missed Monday's big Apple shindig. iOS 12 will support the same phones as iOS 11 and it will (up to) triple performance on the oldest models it supports (which are now 5 years old). In the car industry only Tesla does anything remotely similar.
i didnt miss it, i bet it is imaginary triple speed up of all phones... I am still mad that my barely used iPad Air after update from iOS 7 to iOS 10 got so slow that is basically unusable.
Dont get me wrong, I am p/o that Toyota Europe is dragging their feet with these integrations and being silent on Apple Carplay and Alexa.
This issue will play into Apple's hands. For the people want to update to iOS 10 to use the new CarPlay stuff but have an old phone, they will be out of luck - the phone might get insanely slow and glitchly.
Again, they're claiming they've optimized all the code from the kernel scheduler on up to perform better on older devices, so wait and see if that's really the case.
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Hopefully they'll apply the same backwards compatibility for Enform 2.0 with Android Auto!
There's quite a few pissed off 2018 Camry owners that are mad that their Entune system isn't getting the update where they can get ACP lol.It's good to see that they are testing these out. They should simply offer infotainment units upgrade. Btw it's funny to see them keeping a distance from Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and now since AC is integrated, you can see Apple CarPlay on pretty much all the Toyota car ads on Instagram. They know how important this thing is.