Friday, July 10, 2015

With CarPlay, Apple Looks to Upend Tradition - The New York Times

Driving ambition

"“Any user interface jump within a single display is a hard thing for people to reconcile,” said Parrish Hanna, Ford’s global director of human machine interface. Switching between different sets of controls, even between digital and physical control buttons, can be confusing and potentially distracting, he said.

So at its developers’ conference last month, Apple proposed that rather than following the traditional route of simply having technology companies create apps for cars, automakers should do a U-turn and write apps for the technology company’s software."
With CarPlay, Apple Looks to Upend Tradition - The New York Times

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