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Apple CarPlay Will Now Support Third-Party Navigation and Mapping Apps (techcrunch.com)
Apple today announced that it will now let third-party navigation and mapping apps work with CarPlay starting with iOS 12. "Up to now, Apple only allowed its own mapping app, Maps, to work over CarPlay, but now you can use Waze, Google Maps, Here, or whatever other app you might want to use to get from A to B," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The change marks a big shift for Apple, which is well known for favoring its own native apps and generally a more tightly controlled ecosystem on iOS and across devices. But Maps hasn't been the most popular mapping app by some measure, even for users of iOS. This is in a sense is a tacit acknowledgement that iPhone owners are using a wide variety of other services, and so to get CarPlay used more, this needed to be enabled. It's not clear why Apple didn't extend third-party support for other mapping and navigation apps until now. Perhaps it was to sweeten the deal for more people to use its own Maps app.
Do people not remember the joys that Apple Maps provides us with? ;)
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You say that, but apparently when Apple approached car manufacturers to get them to adopt CarPlay, they had to promise that the only navigation app CarPlay would ever support was Apple Maps, in order not to eat into the sales of car navigation units.
What is your source for that little tidbit of information?
FWIW...the same units offer CarPlay and AndroidPlay have no issues using Google Maps for nav....so it seems unlikely the vendors give a shit if iPhones can use Google Maps as well. It is a lot more likely the whole thing was simply a move by Apple to dirvert people into its own shitty mapping application and have given up trying to convert people like me, who have deleted it from their phone and have chosen to forego CarPlay entirely for this reason.