Some time ago, we talked about CarPlay2.
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Unexpectedly, the number of readers quickly exceeded 100000 +, and the comment area also exploded, with thousands of messages left.
(Apple CarPlay 2.
0 has been abandoned again), some loyal Apple fans say that even in 2024, the CarPlay still has a top experience.
others think that the CarPlay is a product of the fuel car era and should have been phased out a long time ago.
and more onlookers used it to talk about their understanding of cars and even their views on Apple-built cars.
So in this article, according to your comments, we will use “ten questions and ten answers” to answer some netizens’ questions, and also talk about our understanding of CarPlay and our views on car intelligence.
Is CarPlay really free? Whether CarPlay is free or not should be understood from two angles, one is the CarPlay function itself, and the other is the built-in application of CarPlay.
CarPlay itself is charged, of course, but this part of the money is a license fee given to Apple by the car company.
Generally speaking, if a car wants to support CarPlay, it needs to install dedicated IC first, which costs about 5 yuan.
In addition, it also needs to buy MFI authentication chip, about 20 yuan.
For tens of thousands of cars shipped, this is not a small sum of money, so many autonomous car companies do not support CarPlay.
As for the built-in application of CarPlay, it is essentially the mapping of iPhone, which belongs to the same account system as mobile phone.
For example, all kinds of App members are synchronized, and there is no separate charge.
At present, many App in the car need to open on-board members separately.
A friend in the last article mentioned that if one day there is no money to charge the car members, CarPlay can at least continue to listen to music, and even if unfortunately encounter the situation of Weimar that the car stops service, CarPlay can also continue to navigate.
What is the attitude of the new forces towards CarPlay? New Power car companies also have different views on CarPlay.
Most new forces have built their own car ecology, and naturally will not support CarPlay, such as Weilai, Xiaopeng, ideal, Polar Krypton, Zero run, etc.
, no matter for the sake of defense or from the perspective of user experience, it is impossible for CarPlay to appear in their cars.
As for Huawei factional car companies such as Hongmeng Zhixing and Avita, they are even less likely to support them.
However, there are also some manufacturers who are very open-minded, such as Deep Blue, which not only supports CarPlay, but also adapts to HiCar and ICCOA, and Xiaomi even specifically mentioned the support for Apple ecology.
In addition, Lectra also opened its support for CarPlay on 07 EM-P this year.
In our view, open-minded car companies do not have a low level of intelligence, but want to attract Apple users, first using CarPlay to attract consumers to buy cars, and then finally introducing users into their own car ecology.
Will CarPlay never fall behind? In the last discussion, a message mentioned: “CarPlay is the king.
My mobile phone can be changed once a year to maintain the strongest computing power.
Can the car chip be changed once a year?” Five years later, when you get a new phone, you can still use the CarPlay smoothly, and the estimate of using the car phone can no longer be upgraded.
“it is not difficult to see that this friend is a loyal Apple fan who has the money to buy a new phone every year, and the only need for the car phone is navigation and listening to music.
Of course, using the latest iPhone all the time does guarantee performance, which does not mean that CarPlay will never lag behind.
We can understand it from two aspects.
the first is the function itself.
CarPlay is not an independent car-machine system, and its function is also very simple.
Whether it is the latest iPhone or the iPhone four or five years ago, the functions provided are the same, and the application is not as rich as the first-tier car-machine system.
Secondly, from the point of view of cars and machines, at present, many new power car companies are equipped with redundant chips and can maintain the system for several years, such as the NT1.
0 model of four or five years ago, which is still updating the system today.
However, it must be admitted that in the maintenance of old models, car companies like Weilai are still a minority, especially the traditional car companies are not good enough in this respect.
The interaction of CarPlay is better than that of car.
Another netizen left a message: “forget the car machine of new energy, the key CarPlay is king!” Today’s new energy cars are the same as the so-called smart homes, but they are just a transition! ” It can be seen that this friend has a lot of opinions about removing physical buttons and full-touch interaction, but not all new energy vehicles adopt this radical approach.
An excellent car experience will certainly provide reasonable interaction and retain the necessary physical buttons.
CarPlay is great, of course, but it’s certainly not the only one.
Second, in terms of functionality, CarPlay seems to be the transition.
Today’s smart car, by contrast, not only provides screen content, it can also be linked to cockpit space, such as camping mode, queen bed room mode, and so on.
It can even be combined with smart driving, which CarPlay cannot achieve.
Only CarPlay can be seamlessly interconnected? CarPlay is the mapping of mobile phone, map navigation and music playback can be seamlessly connected to the car, and Apple’s experience is really excellent.
If you have experienced the car-phone mapping features of domestic mobile phones, such as vivo’s Jovi in Car, OPPO Car+, Xiaomi CarWith, etc.
, you will find that there is still a gap between CarPlay and CarPlay in terms of the details of the connected experience and the adaptation of the user interface.
But in the field of native car phones, the first-tier players like Hua Xiaogeng, as well as the new power car companies, are no worse than CarPlay in the connected experience, and are far ahead in terms of feature richness.
In addition, software developers are also actively promoting seamless interconnection.
For example, Amap, who is on the phone and on the phone, can also synchronize navigation locations if he logs into the same account.
That is, CarPlay is not irreplaceable, but it does have an advantage in terms of detail experience.
Does CarPlay play songs with better sound quality? It is not metaphysics that CarPlay listens to music with better sound quality, but there are many prerequisites.
Let’s take wireless CarPlay as an example, in fact, it is essentially connected by Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth is only used as a handshake, so the bandwidth available for data transmission is very high, which means that if you are playing music in a lossless format, you should be able to hear better sound quality than ordinary Bluetooth music.
In the Apple ecosystem, there are a large number of Apple Music platforms withoutThe sound source is damaged, so the support for lossless music is really good.
However, on the car side, songs do not need to be played wirelessly, so if you have the same sound source conditions, you will also have good sound quality.
Why can’t CarPlay play videos? For driving safety reasons, CarPlay does not support video playback, even if there are some video App, it can only be played by “listening”.
Some time ago, Wechat adapted to CarPlay, but it does not provide chat function, so it can only be used for voice calls, presumably for security reasons.
It is understandable that video cannot be played while driving, but it is not supported in parking mode, which is obviously because CarPlay does not take into account the needs of users, and in the latest CarPlay2.
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For Apple, whether it can support video playback will not be a technical issue, but the product concept will not allow it.
Which models are supported by CarPlay 2.
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In the demonstration demo, the system takes over almost all the screens on the car, including meters and central controls, and can display driving information such as speed, speed, gear, fuel gauge and so on.
It can also control air conditioning.
Every interface and animation are very delicate and elegant.
At that time, Apple announced that the following car companies would gradually adapt, and said it would be officially launched in the fall of 2023.
But by August 2023, Apple announced “ticket skipping” in advance on the introduction page of its website: a new generation of CarPlay will be launched at the end of 2023.
On the current Apple website, this time once again jumps to be launched in 2024.
At present, foreign media have revealed that Porsche and Aston Martin will debut CarPlay2.
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What are the prospects for CarPlay 2.
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0 platform, we can see that the future is not clear.
The old CarPlay, although displayed on the car machine, its hardware is iPhone, while the new CarPlay, its hardware has become a car.
Apple’s own car-building project has been declared a failure.
As a message in the last discussion said: “the Achilles heel of the new CarPlay is that if users want to use it well, they have to open up the core data and interfaces of the vehicle to Apple, which is undoubtedly a trade secret, and it is impossible for any car company of a certain size to share it with others.
” What does CarPlay2.
0 have to do with Apple car? judging from the extremely high degree of completion of this program, it is not so much CarPlay2.
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Perhaps to Apple, the CarPlay is like a product that was forced to be devolved after a car failure, but unfortunately it has only a soul but no body.
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