Back in the olden times the stereos were so basic all you could hope for was a tape adapter to plug in something external. A standard operating set of commands with a USB plug is all that's really needed. All the car needs to provide is an amplifier and speakers plus some basic functionality on its own like a radio. The external devices progress much faster than cars, for obvious reasons so save money on developing soon to be obsolete systems and just provide a standard the phone/accessory manufacturers can work with and just amplify the audio and provide power.
This is a total re-play of the IBM/Apple race for PC market. Google is the IBM in this scenario.
Next logical prediction would be Apple is going into crisis in a few years and looks for a new Steve Jobs to come up with something new entirely for which another competitor will play the IBM card.
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Back in the olden times the stereos were so basic all you could hope for was a tape adapter to plug in something external. A standard operating set of commands with a USB plug is all that's really needed. All the car needs to provide is an amplifier and speakers plus some basic functionality on its own like a radio. The external devices progress much faster than cars, for obvious reasons so save money on developing soon to be obsolete systems and just provide a standard the phone/accessory manufacturers can work with and just amplify the audio and provide power.
It's about time the large corporations sent a memo to developers to remove hard coded administrator access from its devices.
That's outrageous; it implies that a search engine is required to censor? That's exactly wrong.
Maybe they've figured out that our Moon is the missing part of Mars?
This is a total re-play of the IBM/Apple race for PC market. Google is the IBM in this scenario. Next logical prediction would be Apple is going into crisis in a few years and looks for a new Steve Jobs to come up with something new entirely for which another competitor will play the IBM card.