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GM To Offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto API In Most 2016 Vehicles
Lucas123 writes: GM today announced it will offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto mirroring APIs on 14 of its 2016 vehicles. GM's announcement follows one earlier this week by Hyundai, which said it would offer Android Auto in its Sonata Sedan this year. Some of GM's Chevrolet vehicles — such as the Malibu, Camaro and Silverado truck — use a seven-inch MyLink infotainment system; those systems will be compatible with both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in the beginning of 2016. Those models offering the smartphone mirroring apps include the all-new 2016 Cruze compact, which will debut on June 24. Other GM vehicles use an eight-inch version of MyLink that will only be compatible with Apple CarPlay at the beginning of the new model year. While development and testing is not yet complete, Android Auto compatibility may be available on the eight-inch version of MyLink later in the 2016 model year, GM said.
1) "infotainment" is not a word.
2) People need to pay attention to what they're doing on the road and quit fucking around with cell phones and other cool whizzo shit on the dashboard.
bad bad very friggin bad.
bring back mechanical controls, dials, switches, things that can be operated by feel and by memory, not by look-in-order-to-see-what-your-doing.
Looks to me like marketoids chasing buzzwords
Car companies should concentrate on making cars and leave the fashionable electronics to the fashionable electronic manufacturers
I wonder how many cars still have built-in analog cellphones? or built-in cassette players?
The ONLY thing that should be built-in is a speaker system, tuned to the acoustics of the car, with an amplifier and aux jack
ALL other "infotainment" devices should be separate