Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable

Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by danaris on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:50PM (#22071421)

And how would you activate CarPlay? At the moment it's wired-only, and I'm skeptical as to whether it could be made to work over Bluetooth in existing cars. If you bought a new car today with wired CarPlay, you might still be driving it in 5 or even 10 years, and you really wouldn't want to lose the ability to actually use CarPlay in just a year or two.

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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by BuckRogers on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:20PM (#22071564)

There’s wireless Carplay today.

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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by danaris on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:32PM (#22071617)

Really? Neat, I hadn't heard about that. I will have to look it up. I wonder if my car supports it.

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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by jedberg on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:12PM (#22071786)

I think only BMWs support it right now.

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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by danaris on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:22AM (#22075983)

Well, that lets me out, for sure. Ah, well.

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