{"id":1188745,"date":"2023-10-04T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188745"},"modified":"2023-10-04T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T16:23:00","slug":"as-some-carmakers-run-from-apple-carplay-porsche-embraces-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1188745","title":{"rendered":"As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/My-Porsche-App-CarPlay-1-800x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Porsche Cayenne infotainment screen showing the My Porsche app\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/My-Porsche-App-CarPlay-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1920\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Porsche is the first automaker to expose car functions like climate and lighting via Apple&#8217;s automaker toolkit for CarPlay. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"pullbox sidebar fullwidth\">Porsche provided flights from Washington, DC, to San Jose and four nights in a hotel so we could attend Rennsport Reunion 7 at Laguna Seca. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.<\/aside>\n<p>The introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2016\/01\/one-week-with-apples-carplay\/\">Apple CarPlay in 2016<\/a> was a game-changer. Until then, connecting your phone to your car meant bothering with Bluetooth, and if you wanted to use a smartphone navigation app, you probably needed some kind of phone holder clipped to an air vent or suction-cupped to the dashboard. Being able to cast your phone&#8217;s screen to the car&#8217;s infotainment system turned out to be extremely popular, and by 2020, it was a feature that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autopacific.com\/autopacific-insights\/2020\/1\/15\/nearly-half-of-new-car-buyers-want-their-smart-phone-to-display-in-their-vehicle\">almost half of all new car buyers wanted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This has not sat well with every automaker; in March of this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2023\/03\/gm-kills-more-than-carplay-support-it-kills-choice\/#:~:text=Today%2C%20news%20dropped%20that%20GM,real%20estate%20in%20its%20vehicles.\">General Motors made headlines<\/a>\u2014and generated a lot of comments\u2014when it announced it was killing off support for casting interfaces (both CarPlay and Android Auto) from its future products. But where GM saw a threat, Porsche saw an opportunity. And now it has built a new iOS app, making use of an <a href=\"https:\/\/fotidim.com\/automaker-carplay-apps-without-apples-or-automaker-s-blessings-3d7b9618923d\">Automaker toolkit<\/a> provided by Apple. This little-known feature is only offered to OEMs and allows them freedom beyond the restrictive user interface guidelines laid down by Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Porsche&#8217;s customer research found that the overwhelming majority of its customers have iPhones and prefer using them for things like navigation. &#8220;Obviously, you have to switch back and forth to control some features around media, for example, some more specific features around climate,&#8221; explained Cyril Dorsaz, principal product manager at Porsche Digital. &#8220;And ultimately, we learned through customer research that this is something that our customers are not really happy with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973184#p3\">Read 6 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973184&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1973184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Porsche is the first automaker to expose car functions like climate and lighting via Apple&#8217;s automaker toolkit for CarPlay. 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