Hyundai is sure to infuriate those who own iDevices and own 2015 Sonatas as they’ve been waiting for CarPlay. Well, they have to wait a bit longer it seems:
The Korean automaker first promised to add Apple CarPlay to eligible 2015 Hyundai Sonata sedans in April 2014, but it has now said it will make an announcement when properly equipped 2015 and 2016 Sonatas will receive the update.
The good news? They are looking to make the update free. That might have something to do with the fact that suggestions that customers had to pay for it likely didn’t go over well.
Having CarPlay or Android Auto in cars is a feature that sells cars. While Hyundai has started to roll the latter out, not having support for the former is asking for trouble. Now the fact that this is the second time that I have written about this topic usually means that this has legs in a bad way. Thus I would strongly suggest to Hyundai that they come up with a strategy with haste to get CarPlay into their cars as quickly as possible. Because the longer this goes on, the more likely something really bad will happen from a PR perspective.
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Hyundai Delays CarPlay Intergration…. Again
Hyundai is sure to infuriate those who own iDevices and own 2015 Sonatas as they’ve been waiting for CarPlay. Well, they have to wait a bit longer it seems:
The Korean automaker first promised to add Apple CarPlay to eligible 2015 Hyundai Sonata sedans in April 2014, but it has now said it will make an announcement when properly equipped 2015 and 2016 Sonatas will receive the update.
The good news? They are looking to make the update free. That might have something to do with the fact that suggestions that customers had to pay for it likely didn’t go over well.
Having CarPlay or Android Auto in cars is a feature that sells cars. While Hyundai has started to roll the latter out, not having support for the former is asking for trouble. Now the fact that this is the second time that I have written about this topic usually means that this has legs in a bad way. Thus I would strongly suggest to Hyundai that they come up with a strategy with haste to get CarPlay into their cars as quickly as possible. Because the longer this goes on, the more likely something really bad will happen from a PR perspective.
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