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      03-10-2014, 01:32 PM   #1
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Apple CarPlay

Apple just released iOS 7.1 for the iPhone. It includes CarPlay. Wonder if BMW is going to jump on board and update the software for our X1's? Seems they haven't updated their phone software for almost a year.

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      03-10-2014, 03:10 PM   #2
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I hope they do but seriously doubt that they can adapt quickly. As it is now, the connected apps is behind on the X1.

As someone noted in this forum before, there's a bigger chance that you're changing your vehicle by the time BMW adapts/updates their software to be current on our cars.
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I'd love to see this as well, but I fear that they will never retrofit it to older cars and will only offer it on newer models.
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An interesting thing about Apple's CarPlay is that it doesn't demand very much from the car's headunit, essentially it just needs it to be a 'dumb' display that can pass along user input in the form of touches. This is a massive change from how all other phones currently interact with cars.

While I agree that BMW won't be even bothering to attempt backwards retrofitting to existing cars, it might be easier than we think to support it in future cars, the biggest catch being that BMW's iDrive doesn't support any kind of touch input on the screen itself right now, right? That'll have to change. After that, it'll be genuinely trivial to support it.
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