Apple in June revealed the next generation of CarPlay, which has fundamentally changed the way people interact with their vehicles, and the next generation of CarPlay goes even further by deeply integrating with a car’s hardware.
CarPlay will be able to provide content for multiple screens within the vehicle, creating an experience that is unified and consistent. Deeper integration with the vehicle will allow users to do things like control the radio or change the climate directly through CarPlay, and using the vehicle data, CarPlay will seamlessly render the speed, fuel level, temperature, and more on the instrument cluster. Users will be able to personalize their driving experience by choosing different gauge cluster designs, and with added support for widgets, users will have at-a-glance information from Weather and Music right on their car’s dashboard. More information about the next generation of CarPlay will be shared in the future, and vehicles will start to be announced late next year.
Apple engineering manager Emily Schubert said 98% of new cars in the U.S. come with CarPlay installed. She delivered a shocking stat: 79% of U.S. buyers would only buy a car if it supported CarPlay.
“It’s a must-have feature when shopping for a new vehicle,” Schubert said during a presentation of the new features.
The auto industry faces an unappealing choice: Offer CarPlay and give up potential revenue and the chance to ride a major industry shift, or spend heavily to develop their own infotainment software and cater to an increasing audience of car buyers who won’t purchase a new vehicle without CarPlay…
“We believe this could eventually lead to Apple providing services leveraging car sensor platforms,” Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall wrote in June about the next-generation CarPlay.
The next generation of CarPlay will need significant buy-in from automakers to give Apple’s software access to core systems. Apple suggested it secured cooperation from several major carmakers.
“Automakers around the world are excited to bring this new version of CarPlay to customers,” Schubert added before displaying a slide with 14 carmaker brands, including Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Audi.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote of this next-gen CarPlay the day it was announced:
We can’t believe Apple talked (at least some) vehicle makers into including it.
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Real world buyers aren’t as clueless as AppleCynic and AppleBS. That’s why there’s over a billion Apple users, including the mind-numbing hypocrites who use Apple in their name like some kind of badge, and who openly admit to using Apple products, which if they were consistent in, they’d avoid like the plague. But we’re dealing with damaged people. People vote with their hearts, minds and wallets.
Said the driver that needs windshield wipers on the inside.
CarPlay is okay nothing more.
There is absolutely nothing notable about CarPlay. It’s another me-too move from Apple. It’s doesnt magically stop the annoying auto touchscreen from being as buggy laggy and distracting. It offers a poor use of screen space and it forces one to click through menus to get to what you want. For people who know where they are going, which is most people, the auto interfaces before the touchscreen were vastly faster and easier. But now Big Tech wants to sink in their hooks and entice people to subscribe. No thanks.
Actually Google’s product crappy Android Auto is the me to product Einstein!
Crikey you must be in the passenger seat of whatever three wheeler cynic is driving.🚙 🚑
I have mixed feelings and experiences with CarPlay. I prefer real buttons that I can feel to adjust temperature and volume. I don’t like how CarPlay starts music or podcast automatically. But that I have Apple maps on my car display is great.
I like to play with my car using car play, okay? Android Auto ought to be better. But CarPlay rocks
Today, I wouldn’t buy a car without CarPlay.
My 2021 vehicle has it.
I love CarPlay when it works but, for me, it has problems about 5% of the time. Either it won’t connect or the screens come up wrong. I actually have to pull over, stop and shut off the car before I can restart and get CarPlay working. The quality control is poor.
I purchased an aftermarket system that uses my existing 2018 vehicle’s screen and hardware for CarPlay. Works great, and yes I have issues 5% of the time too.
I agree I’m not interested in Apple having control of my vehicle other than for navigation.
Yep still a work in progress but progressing pretty well in a complex non standard and testing environment.
The mock-up offered here is cool and strange at the same time. I don’t think I’d like to stretch over to the passenger side to check what song is playing.
Gee, John, what a dumb thing to say. The screens are infinitely customisable, and that info is for your passenger, not you.
But if you couldn’t figure that out, then gee, John.
Five stars. Brilliant.
Also, British? “Customisible”
No wonder you like the passenger seat so much!
Be honest he may have somewhat humiliated you by correcting your understanding of the tech and that may be difficult to handle, but he is absolutely right in what he says I’m afraid and has a right to state it, truth is important right?
My honest assessment is that a goof ball is posting under various names and can barely be taken seriously, so I jest along.
As for my point, customizable or not, they still need to reflect safety protocols. The powers-that-be won’t be allowing people to put clocks and music and whatever widgets in various places without scrutiny and its doubtful you’ll have anything like a mockup with a clock positioned mostly on the passenger side. It might seem nit-picky, but I don’t think the mock-up considers this.
It is “customisable” in British English, you Buffoon. Customizable for the yanks. Gee John, sorry Driving with CarPlay is too hard for you, get a Nokia 3310, it’s more your style. It’s the phone Biden uses so it’d be perfect for you.
They spell funny and druve on the wrong side. Here we speak ‘merican!
I’ve lived in Britain. I’m a fan. They’d like the humor.
Or humour even 😈😇
My Apple Car is going to be incredible. For one, it will have all the visual functions right in front of me. On the passenger dash it will have iBooks. I’ll have all my favorite First Then quotes/diatribes cycle through on my Apple Bumper Ticker, which will be an OLED display on my bumper.
Also, First Then will have come up with a new tag by then, we can only hope. Its release cannot come too soon. It’s better than these random conversations he has with himself.
“Trojan Horse”?
Way to promote it! Might as well call it “Toxic Hellstew”.
The only toxic hellstew around here is called AppleCynic
Does that come with Grits?🤯
with raisins… spotted dickgrits.