TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation

Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by kube-system on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:04PM (#31585695)

> I don't have to plug in my phone, or even look at it. I get turn by turn in the binnacle AND the heads-up display. And on top of that, it _doesn't_ do all the silly stuff that Google does to make people think it's so great, like routing me through some residential neighborhood to save 45 seconds.

Apple CarPlay + Apple Maps checks all of those boxes in my car.

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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by pkulak on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @03:58PM (#31587185)

I don't get it. You don't have to look at your phone and you get turn-by-turn in your HUD by using Apple Maps?

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Re:TomTom to cut 10% of jobs due to improved automation by kube-system on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @04:34PM (#31587703)

Correct. Many new vehicles integrate the CarPlay APIs into the vehicle quite well. And it has wireless carplay, so I don't even take the phone out of my pocket. It just auto-connects when I start the car. I press the voice command button on my steering wheel, tell Siri to navigate somewhere, and all of the navigation displays (hud/cluster/infotainment display) in my car display the directions that Apple Maps is spitting out. It works identically to the way a factory nav would otherwise work.

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