Apple CarPlay Will Now Support Third-Party Navigation and Mapping Apps (techcrunch.com) 44
Apple today announced that it will now let third-party navigation and mapping apps work with CarPlay starting with iOS 12. "Up to now, Apple only allowed its own mapping app, Maps, to work over CarPlay, but now you can use Waze, Google Maps, Here, or whatever other app you might want to use to get from A to B," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The change marks a big shift for Apple, which is well known for favoring its own native apps and generally a more tightly controlled ecosystem on iOS and across devices. But Maps hasn't been the most popular mapping app by some measure, even for users of iOS. This is in a sense is a tacit acknowledgement that iPhone owners are using a wide variety of other services, and so to get CarPlay used more, this needed to be enabled. It's not clear why Apple didn't extend third-party support for other mapping and navigation apps until now. Perhaps it was to sweeten the deal for more people to use its own Maps app.
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Crappls sucks ass, Tim Cocksucker sucked off all good stuff.
Wow! What an erudite post.
Exactly what I have come to expect from Slashtard AC Apple Haters.
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Federal Regulations?! Where have you seen that? I cannot imagine what regulation that could be and would love to know WTF. The last time I tried to use CarPlay in a car and Waze together it was a disaster and I'd decided I'd avoid it in my next car but if Waze will work I'm onboard! Hopefully it won't require firmware flashes of radcios because if it does this is a near worthless feature announcement!
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If privacy is important
It's not. I thought that would be painfully obvious to everyone by now. Facebook, Google, etc show quite clearly that it doesn't even register as part of the thought process for people let alone have any weight.
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If privacy is important
It's not. I thought that would be painfully obvious to everyone by now. Facebook, Google, etc show quite clearly that it doesn't even register as part of the thought process for people let alone have any weight.
That is, until they see the results (okay, some not even then). There was quite a stir a little while ago, when people finally understood Facebook's business model. I don't think it's so much that people don't care about privacy as it is that people lack foresight and imagination, as you mention. They like using these "free" services and don't stop to ask why they are free, how the company actually makes money or whether they should really be sharing so much information with these companies.
Once it is po
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I still disagree. If there's one thing that Facebook has shown it's that people not only don't think about the data they hand over, but also when shown how much data these companies have, when shown how data is used to manipulate, when shown how it could have an effect on an entire nation ... they shrug and continue to hand over data.
I would say that categorically people don't give a crap about their privacy, not even related to liking it or not, just flat out not caring in the slightest.
The excuse that the
Why not Apple Maps? (Score:4, Funny)
Do people not remember the joys that Apple Maps provides us with? [businessinsider.com] ;)
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The ones that used Apple Maps ended up lost and/or dead.
Thank You, Apple!! (Score:2)
FINALLY!!!!
Now CarPlay is finally worth getting!!! THANK YOU, Apple!!
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Agree so long as it doesn't require flashing the radios. No doubt OEMs will charge an assload for it :(
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You say that, but apparently when Apple approached car manufacturers to get them to adopt CarPlay, they had to promise that the only navigation app CarPlay would ever support was Apple Maps, in order not to eat into the sales of car navigation units.
What is your source for that little tidbit of information?
FWIW...the same units offer CarPlay and AndroidPlay have no issues using Google Maps for nav....so it seems unlikely the vendors give a shit if iPhones can use Google Maps as well. It is a lot more likely the whole thing was simply a move by Apple to dirvert people into its own shitty mapping application and have given up trying to convert people like me, who have deleted it from their phone and have chosen to forego CarPlay entirely for this reason.
Interoperability. (Score:2)
My hope is that Carplay, Android Auto and Mirrorlink merge into an interoperable standard. It would be awfully nice if my choice of car (or at least the head-end) did not force me into a particular phone model.
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I doubt this will happen because these brands want to keep themselves unique, but mostly because the cost of separate protocols is about zero due to the power of head unit computing and how the difference is mostly in software.
I also wouldn't be surprised if Apple & Android supplied most of the software that makes it work to standards set by automakers, further reducing the cost of supporting both platforms.
In theory, the major automakers (US, Japanese, German) could have banded together under some engi
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They couldn't even agree on a standard for headphones with built in microphones.
You really think they will share a common standard for something as complex as device remote access?
I certainly won't be holding my breath.
Car GPS is still a thing? (Score:2)
We all have smartphones already. Their maps are constantly up to date. Why would I want to use outdated maps in my vehicle? The importance of the vehicle's entertainment system is lessening (is that a word?). Phones and tablets have overtaken the pricey navigation and DVD systems.
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We all have smartphones already. Their maps are constantly up to date. Why would I want to use outdated maps in my vehicle? The importance of the vehicle's entertainment system is lessening (is that a word?). Phones and tablets have overtaken the pricey navigation and DVD systems.
Go through along tunnel, with exits, using your phone. Once it loses the sat connection it doesn't know where it is. Your car's nav system can use information from the car to keep track of it's location on the map, and tell you where to exit. I often chuckle at the stories of Uber riders going way out of their way because the driver's phone lost signal in the tunnel, and didn't know where to get off.
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Fix the stability too, please (Score:2)
Check your data link (Score:2)
CarPlay in my experience is way picky about the data link between the phone and the car.
My Kenwood after-market unit had CarPlay crashes all the time until I:
* Took the battery case off the phone
* Connected with a decent quality Lightning cable
Some battery cases don't switch cleanly between charging the case and charging the phone, and the momentary hiccup seems to break CarPlay. The cheap micro-USB connector in the case might also contribute to this.
Agreed, CarPlay should not crash on transient data inter