Re:Software made me loathe my car
by whalesalad on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:35PM
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That's also a killer idea. A lot of people do this in the aftermarket world, but it would be unreasonable to expect you to "BYOD" for basic infotainment purposes. There needs to be _soemthing_ there for the people who don't have devices, or just need to make a quick run to the store and don't want to grab their ipad and dock it etc...
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I bet they could just throw in an iPad cheaper than whatever it costs them to build their terrible custom solution.
It doesn't cost them much. They just mark up the feature when they sell the car because they can.
Re:Software made me loathe my car
by closetohome on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:14PM
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That was the especially galling part about all these OEM infotainment systems -- they were charging like $1200 for the equivalent functionality of a Kindle Fire.
Re:Software made me loathe my car
by RandallBrown on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:02PM
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My 2011 Subaru Forester's "infotainment" is a TomTom GPS with a few extra hooks into the cars radio. It's absolute trash, but you can remove the GPS entirely and the radio/CD player/AUX still works with a small button only interface.
I've dreamed about being able to dock my phone in place of that shitty GPS.
I think Toyota have docking stations as option on some of their cars, but only for rear passengers. Attached to the back of the front seats, for kids to watch stuff on a tablet.