GM, CarPlay and iPhones
A bit of a follow up on a previous post regarding GM's decision to drop CarPlay.
I talked about when the 3rd generation of CarPlay was announced at last year's WWDC and John Gruber nailed it:
I wonder how much of a factor it is that Apple has spent the last decade not-so-secretly working on creating its own line of cars? There's no way GM would ever integrate a software system from, say, Ford or Honda. But so why integrate CarPlay, which comes from a company that seemingly wants to compete with existing automakers? Apple's own car ambitions make CarPlay integration, to some extent, seem like a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Posted 19th Apr 2023 @ 12:05
★ Floor 796
By 0x00
Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station! The goal of the project is to create as huge animation as possible, with many references to movies, games, anime and memes.
Already so much to see, some squares are interactive and you can click and share direct links to animations.
Posted 12th Apr 2023 @ 08:15
Grid World
Posted 5th Apr 2023 @ 14:48
General Motors to phase out Apple CarPlay starting this year in EV transition
For EVs only, but I don't get why you would do this. No one needs another device to sign in to for their media consumption.
Maybe this is in response to Apple's own plans to use CarPlay to take over the not only the infotainment system but to become the car's interface. I don't see how that plays out positively for Apple. Why would manufacturers give their data away to Apple? CarPlay is currently pretty good. Instrument clusters are being digitised, they're not always great, but that feels like something that should be up to the car to deal with and not your phone.
More on the topic from John Gruber.
I'll go out on a limb here and say this is a less of a setback for Apple than it is a setback for GM, whose decision makers seem to be utter dolts.
Posted 4th Apr 2023 @ 15:12