by neogodless on 5/15/25, 1:27 PM
Ideally, this is the logical progression that balances automakers desire for having some level of influence on the experience, while still giving drivers the phone-driven CarPlay experience they prefer. Though if the balance isn't quite right, the automakers could gain "too much" control over it (and ruin it). It will be interesting to see what the real world experience is with it, though.
Android Automotive, pay attention. GM, I'm looking at you.
by guestbest on 5/15/25, 1:28 PM
I like my simple analog controls next to the infotainment system. Lucky for me I can’t afford a new car, especially an Aston Martin , so I won’t be affected .
by turtle408 on 5/15/25, 1:30 PM
I love CarPlay. Seamless integration with any car I rent. Gone are those days where you need to carry a car phone-holder and distractions. Game changer imo
by btown on 5/15/25, 1:47 PM
CarPlay is a really interesting co-branded design challenge. Each automaker wants their own look and feel (this is the industry that led to the computing usage of the word "chrome" after all! [0]), so Apple needs to deliver a design system that can find the right balance of customizability and standardization of the actual UX.
How do you design a widget that car designers might want to give different fonts, different levels of visual density, crammed into unexpected shapes and sizes, that must never get into a situation where information appears glitchy in a way that could cause a real-world accident?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLf44BXd0SE is a WWDC 2024 presentation that speaks to some of these challenges. I recall a great prior discussion thread on HN about this, but can't find it at the moment.
[0] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/15618
by RobT7k on 5/15/25, 1:30 PM
I'm a big fan of carplay, but I'm not sure I want whatever this is.
Some better integrations, sure. I can see wanting the carplay maps able to know the charge of the battery/fuel levels to plan out trips that include chargers/gas stations on the way.
But, taking over the entire dash? Nah, let's not overcomplicate things too much.
by mohsen1 on 5/15/25, 1:25 PM
I rent cars frequently and most of the cars I rent support CarPlay. Literally all cars in the past few months had been pretty buggy when it comes to CarPlay. Sudden disconnects. Not connecting again after first try. Wireless or wired CarPlay has been so buggy for me that I'm horrified of the idea of the entire car's infotainment system running on this stack. I tried cars from BMW, Peugeot, BYD and VW.
by fanatic2pope on 5/15/25, 1:50 PM
I know it is not necessarily for everyone, but I like the idea from this "Slate" startup of not having a secondary dashboard interface and keeping physical controls for all the usual basics. Then they just give you a convenient spot you can mount your phone for everything else.
https://imgur.com/a/5GoIhja
by jcims on 5/15/25, 1:23 PM
Can't wait to see ads on my speedometer.
by pjc50 on 5/15/25, 1:35 PM
by closewith on 5/15/25, 1:25 PM
I already use Carplay as my de facto dash, as I trust the GPS Speedo in Waze more than the car and I shift on sound, not the tacho.
I won't buy or rent a new car without car play so this is a smart move. Hopefully the OEM customisation is on tight rails so they can't mess up the UX too much.
by mbesto on 5/15/25, 1:30 PM
The only question that matters is - can you replace Apple Maps with Google Maps for the in-dash display?
by guidedlight on 5/15/25, 1:26 PM
I can’t help feel this is too late. Android Automotive has been out for a while, and it seems like half the manufacturers have either moved or are moving to it.
Google wins this round I’m afraid.
by FredPret on 5/15/25, 3:46 PM
The killer feature I want from CarPlay is not blasting my audiobook when the car turns on.
I've gone so far as to create a Shortcut to play a silent song on Apple Music, but it's a hack and it only works sometimes.
by xnx on 5/15/25, 3:11 PM
In a better world, cars would be dumb peripherals to user-controlled phones.
by gniv on 5/15/25, 1:28 PM
I don't understand how they plan to update my 4-year-old Toyota.
by bouke on 5/15/25, 5:06 PM
Ugh it looks pretty hideous to me, i wouldn’t want my instrument cluster to look like that. The styling of for example BMW’s instrument cluster looks so much better than this.
by jeffbee on 5/15/25, 1:32 PM
Can't wait for my car to remind me that my iCloud storage, which I've never intentionally used, is full. Still.
by t1234s on 5/15/25, 1:36 PM
This is actually a good thing. Car manufacturers (aside from Tesla) have terrible UI.
by SirMaster on 5/15/25, 2:54 PM
Wow took 3 years from the announcement at WWDC 2022 to finally start rolling out.
by coder543 on 5/15/25, 1:33 PM
Does CarPlay Ultra add support for pinch-to-zoom?
by Philadelphia on 5/15/25, 1:41 PM
Apple needs to be broken up. They’re much worse than Microsoft in the 90’s.
by conartist6 on 5/15/25, 1:40 PM
"Rolling out" how you refer to shipping a product when you don't intend to ask your users if they want the product or not
by mrwizardno2 on 5/15/25, 1:27 PM
Personally, I'm over the displays. Give me real dials and knobs, please.
by masteruvpuppetz on 5/15/25, 2:57 PM
How much extra would it cost compared to plain vanilla CarPlay? /s
by hiatus on 5/15/25, 1:31 PM
How is this ad frontpage news?