I will say one good thing about the UI on this Buick SUV. A UI so bad that two people at the rental car exit gate couldn't figure out how to get it to display the mileage. A UI so bad that when I discovered that the mapping software was unreadable, I had to pull off to the side of the road in order to figure out how to tell it to shut up and stop giving me directions. And that good thing is that the two control knobs underneath the display are close enough, and the angle of the screen is deep enough, that a large phone can pretty securely rest on it and cover up their display.
@nazgul sorry, lost me with Buick SUV
@mapto It was not my choice. Or rather, they said they would eventually get me what I ordered, but I didn't feel like waiting any longer (three and a half more hours to drive, and getting in after 1am) and said I'd take "that smaller one over there". If I'd known it was a Buick, or that it didn't have CarPlay, I would have waited.
But seriously, these are the companies that think they're going to replace iOS and Android in their cars?
@nazgul @mapto Some VP at GM came up with a cunning plan last year to capture a sweet extra $25/mo and all they had to do was completely replicate Apple’s trillion-dollar best-in-breed software and hardware user experience. And some idiots approved it. He got a bonus and the whole fucking company is gonna get just. fucking. hammered.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/01/general-motors-ditching-carplay/
@jamiemccarthy @nazgul I suppose you're all apple users, so you probably don't know what the Google equivalent keeps disconnecting unexpectedly. So, there is much room for improvement, and hopefully somebody from the hardware guys would arrive at the idea of an open standard
@mapto @jamiemccarthy I understand their fear, because the nextgen version doesn't just do maps, it hooks into the system and manages everything. Which makes sense, wouldn't you love your nav app to know when to find you a gas station, and give you voice access to everything? But it's also greed, they want to nickel-and-dime you with paid subscriptions to your heated seats and garbage like that. So they're balking at the new CarPlay.
Unfortunately all of that makes it unlikely that they'll provide an open API to Apple and Google.
Maybe the EU will step in. The US certainly isn't in a regulatory mood.