Accidental Tech Podcast593: Not a European Lawyer
https://atp.fm/593
The EU giveth, and Apple taketh away.
Michael@atpfm RE: John’s comments @ 29:00:
I completely agree that the system Apple has proposed is odd and definitely convoluted…
…but as a person who is interested in cars but not a “car person”, I 100% view my car as an appliance, and have exactly zero attachment to the design choices made by my car’s manufacturer. I would have no qualms enabling a setting to overwrite their notoriously bad UI’s.
Janne Ojaniemi@michaelrjohnson @atpfm yeah, am not really a hardcore car person, although I have preference for certain brand (Volkswagen). I think I would prefer CarPlay everywhere. Give the customers the option, if they really want it, they would prefer your cars over competitors. If they don’t want it, they could just not use it. It would be a competitive advantage. And if I were driving several cars, would my CarPlay-setup follow me from car to car? No need to re-learn ui in every car.
John Siracusa@Janne_O @michaelrjohnson There would still be a need to relearn some stuff, because the UI wouldn’t be exactly identical between cars (manufacturers can customize, which is part of Apple’s pitch). And on top of that, there’s the “punch-though” UI for every feature not implemented on CarPlay (or that the manufacturer just doesn’t want to do in CarPlay).
@siracusa @Janne_O No arguments there — I think their proposal for 2.0 is fraught and likely DOA — but in terms of being an owner wanting the car’s brand integrity in the UI to remain intact, I couldn’t care less.
I may very well be in the minority in viewing my car as an appliance, but I think not. I think it’s another manifestation of the collective opinion towards GM abandoning CarPlay: whatever the manufacturer puts together is less important than my phone integration.