From the “playing both sides of the fence department” comes this press release from Audi that announces that they will offer both CarPlay which is from Apple and Android Auto which is from Google in their cars:
“Our customers want to be ‘always on’ and use the services they know from their smartphones in cars as well,” says Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, Board Member for Technical Development at AUDI AG. “In this regard, we are working closely with leading companies like Google and Apple. In the future, customers will be able to use the functions available to them on their smartphones via the operating systems in their cars as well.
So regardless of which side of the fence you’re on, you’ll be covered. The press release was light on other details. Though it did says that each system will use the Audi MMI interface and users can switch between systems at any time. Plus they’ll be in 2015 model year cars. So we’ll have to wait and see what they bring to the table and how they do it.
One thing that I suspect will happen is that other car companies will bring their plans for one system or the other forward soon.
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Audi To Offer BOTH CarPlay And Android Auto On Its Cars
From the “playing both sides of the fence department” comes this press release from Audi that announces that they will offer both CarPlay which is from Apple and Android Auto which is from Google in their cars:
“Our customers want to be ‘always on’ and use the services they know from their smartphones in cars as well,” says Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, Board Member for Technical Development at AUDI AG. “In this regard, we are working closely with leading companies like Google and Apple. In the future, customers will be able to use the functions available to them on their smartphones via the operating systems in their cars as well.
So regardless of which side of the fence you’re on, you’ll be covered. The press release was light on other details. Though it did says that each system will use the Audi MMI interface and users can switch between systems at any time. Plus they’ll be in 2015 model year cars. So we’ll have to wait and see what they bring to the table and how they do it.
One thing that I suspect will happen is that other car companies will bring their plans for one system or the other forward soon.
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