Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈Jun 15, 2024
Still working through WWDC videos. A lot of interesting stuff. The CarPlay videos are kind of wild. The next gen CarPlay was announced WWDC 2022, then Porsche showed a teaser gauge cluster at the end of 2023 that isn’t shipping in anything. The two 2024 videos are basically a sales pitch and an explainer for the 2022 announcement … obviously a lot of extra work has happened in two years, but … will anything ever ship with this?
Show threadJoe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈Jun 15, 2024
The first video, “Say hello to the next generation of CarPlay design system” is a sales pitch about how a car company’s brand will only be mildly diluted into a cobranded experience
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10112/
This is … weird. Ironically car makers are teased with a level of customization that has never appeared on an Apple product in this century, but it’s when working with Apple designers, and you apparently have to use SF? Wild proposition when no one wants to adopt it.
Say hello to the next generation of CarPlay design system - WWDC24 - Videos - Apple Developer

Explore the design system at the heart of the next generation of CarPlay that allows each automaker to express their vehicle's character...

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Show threadJoe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈Jun 15, 2024
The next video on the architecture is also mystifying. It starts as a pitch to automakers that it’s not THAT much more complicated than CarPlay, and so customizable. Then you get to the various display elements that need to be composited from the vehicle overlays, punch through, remote UI synced to vehicle status, and the UI generated from assets delivered from the phone. The customization is that automakers can reimplement all their control logic with Apple UI elements.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10111/
Meet the next generation of CarPlay architecture - WWDC24 - Videos - Apple Developer

Dive into the architecture for the next generation of CarPlay. Learn how your vehicle system works with iPhone to create a single...

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Show threadJoe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈Jun 16, 2024

This thread should have been a blog post.

Blog: What Is Going On With Next-Generation Apple CarPlay?
https://joe-steel.com/2024-06-15-What-Is-Going-On-With-NextGeneration-Apple-CarPlay.html

What Is Going On With Next-Generation Apple CarPlay?

Show threadScott McIntyreJun 20, 2024

@joesteel “One of the drawbacks of existing CarPlay is that your navigation app can only display in the center console, and can’t provide directions in the instrument cluster in front of the driver, like built-in systems can.”

There must be some two-way comms being done by current CarPlay because our 2023 Ford Escape will show the next turn direction in the main instrument cluster.

Show threadJoe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈Jun 20, 2024
@smackfu Sorry, I should have written that differently. I’m talking about the turn by turn navigation map that Apple demos. There’s only one display feed in current CarPlay. It can’t do a multi-display thing. Next Gen CarPlay solves that by taking over all the displays.
Show threadScott McIntyre
@joesteel ah yes, 100% agree
Jun 20, 2024 at 6:32pmWeb