On the one hand, Apple are significantly better at design than car manufacturers so this should be good. On the other hand, moving from something at least close to an RTOS to this does concern me. When your speedometer freezes, who is going to take the blame?
Nope, absolutely hard no for me. As long as I can play my own music and answer calls in my car, I’m happy. I don’t need any of this shit on my dash as I’m not already spending way too much time looking at my phone screen anyways. Why would I want my passengers to see what’s on my calendar or see my messages? Its actually ridiculous.<p>Let cars be cars for fucks sake.
Yeah, I'm so not into this. While I would love a more visually compelling and useful in-car infotainment system, something being tied to iOS or Android is a hard no from me. I don't trust Apple to be anything other than a closed ecosystem, and I don't trust anything by Apple or Google to made obsolete well before the end of a vehicles useful lifetime.
There <i>has</i> to be a backup display that is not iOS (Apple - whatever). Cars last 10 or more years. Will Apple support this for at least that long? Also, in 10 years is <i>any</i> who doesn't own an Apple device going to be able to buy and drive a used car with this?
Apple's proposing putting widgets in the center console. There's notably already a variety of widget games[1]. Apple does spend over a minute of their WidgetKit introduction in WWDC2020 declaring "widgets are not mini apps" but already this is a blurred line. I'd be more excited to see how Apple handles this situation, except I rather expect Apple just to be Apple and to manually approve each car widget.<p>[1] <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/widget-games-casual-arcade/id1605540788" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/widget-games-casual-arcade/id1...</a>
My vehicle has a HUD that includes navigation hints when using the built-in GPS. It doesn't work when using Android Auto or Apple Carplay. It would be nice to have deeper integration like this.
Look at where the now playing audio is in this picture:<p><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUlm_XEUUAAViqE?format=jpg&name=large" rel="nofollow">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUlm_XEUUAAViqE?format=jpg&name=...</a>