If you can’t defeat them then join them. Rallying around this motto, car makers have started to take side with either Google or Apple. Ever since Google and Apple have launched their motives of taking over car driving too, the car makers are finding ways to obtain partnership with them.
One such development is taking place right now as General Motors plans to introduce latest Apple software Apple CarPlay on its entire fleet being manufactured for 2016.
Carplay’s biggest feature currently is Siri. The virtual assistant developed by Apple has not been riding waves up till now. Talking about Siri was considered ‘un-cool’, but ever since its introduction in automotives, Siri is being considered as J.A.R.V.I.S to Iron-Man.
Business Insider, who researched upon one such car, reported that Getting CarPlay to work is straightforward. You plug your iPhone (which has to be running iOS 7.1) into the car's USB port and presto! CarPlay appears as an option on the central infotainment touch screen. Tap it and a suite of CarPlay-fied Apple icons takes over. The navigation is then very iPhone-like, managed through a round, white home button that picks up the iPhone's critical interface feature.
While the world was waiting for driverless cars to be available something much more fun has erupted. The car industry is looking like ‘in place to be’.
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