“Siri, are we there yet?” “You should be there in about 25 minutes.”
“Siri, please play the top hits from 1990.”
“Also, Siri, text Dad and tell him I’ll be there soon.”
“I take back all — OK most — of the expletives I’ve ever hurled at Siri,” Joanna Stern writes for The Wall Street Journal. “Apple’s personal assistant has finally found a place in my life: riding shotgun.”
“For the last week, I have been testing Apple’s CarPlay in a 2016 Corvette Stingray,” Stern writes. “Plug your iPhone (5 or newer) into the car’s USB port and the center screen displays a stripped down yet familiar iOS interface. You can control your phone’s maps, music, messages and other street-legal features with taps or by pressing the steering wheel’s voice button, then talking to Siri.”
“CarPlay is undoubtedly the future of in-car technology. Siri, after years of rearing, is worthy of helming a system that makes car maker’s own dashboard controls feel like DOS,” Stern writes. “If I were in the market for a car now, I’d add CarPlay—and a speedometer that goes up to 200 mph—to the want list. For a week, my iPhone hid inside the Corvette’s armrest because Siri was so helpful.”
Read more in the full review here.
MacDailyNews Take: Note to vehicle makers: If you don’t have CarPlay, you’re off our list of potential buys.
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Apple’s CarPlay success shows the power of having a long-term strategy – March 15, 2015
Apple’s real CarPlay: Cupertino doesn’t need to build cars in order to reinvent driving – February 28, 2015
Ford drops reputation-scorching Microsoft Sync, enables support for Apple’s sought-after CarPlay – December 12, 2014
Apple’s CarPlay looks like the future of in-car infotainment – April 13, 2014