Tag Archives :: Apple
Today’s In-Car Infotainment Systems: Too Many Features?
May 5, 2015 – Infotainment systems, long a selling-point in consumer advertising by automakers, have reached a point beyond which basic information and entertainment can be easily accessed and operated. Consumers are now faced with a confusing array of features, touch-surfaces, “button-farms” and menu hierarchies that have added operational complexity beyond the comprehension of many people. The source of […] [Continue Reading]
NXP and Freescale Combine to Create an Automotive Chip “Giant”
March 12, 2015 – As consumers and markets warm to the idea of mobile payments, news from the semiconductor industry might just provide the technological tipping point needed to achieve mass market adoption in the auto industry. Last week’s announcement of NXP Semiconductor NV’s acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor Ltd. will create a single company with chip manufacturing […] [Continue Reading]
Pioneer Beats Automakers to Market with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
March 5, 2015 – At this exact time last year, Apple announced at the Geneva auto show that more than a dozen automakers would implement its new CarPlay infotainment platform by the end of 2014. As the year wound down, however, most of those automakers chose to walk back those introductions, leaving Apple fans and iPhone owners waiting to […] [Continue Reading]
Hyundai Prepares for the Upcoming Wearable Technology Boom
March 3, 2015 – Wearable technology might be a novelty item today, but that is about to change. According to research firm CSS Insight, the sales of wearables are expected to increase from 29 million units in 2014 to 172 million by 2018, with the biggest spike predicted to take place in 2015. The highly anticipated Apple Watch will […] [Continue Reading]
CES Day Three: The 2015 Emergence of Apple CarPlay and Google Android Auto
January 8, 2015 – What a difference a year makes. At the start of 2014, we were told of the wave of automakers adopting the Apple CarPlay infotainment platform by the end of the year. We also received news of automakers touting their proprietary app development platforms and “stores” that would ensure branding consistency throughout the center stack. If […] [Continue Reading]
Five Connected Car Predictions for 2015
December 29, 2014 – Connected car technology made huge advances in 2014. Google and Apple became major in-dash app development players, the auto industry began self-regulating the privacy of the data generated by vehicles, and Silicon Valley became the uncontested center of automotive technology innovation. It was a year that, as explained by C3 Group president Doug Newcomb, “offers […] [Continue Reading]
2104: A Banner Year for Connected Car
December 22, 2014 – If we could put 2014 into a time capsule and open it at some point in the future, we might look back upon this last year as experiencing incredible breakthroughs in the connected car space. Without a doubt, 2014 was a year in which we witnessed technological, cultural and societal shifts that have begun to […] [Continue Reading]
Google’s Factory-Installed Android Platform Coming In 2015?
December 19, 2014 – Coming to a dashboard near you, maybe: Android M, Google’s tentatively-named platform for automotive infotainment and connected services management. Designed and built directly into the vehicle as an integrated system, Android M is the first connected platform that is not dependent upon a tethered smartphone. Unlike Android Auto, which “projects” the user interface onto the […] [Continue Reading]
Apple and Google Might Need to Make Room For Alibaba
December 4, 2014 – Much of the connected car platform development news over the past year has been dominated by Google and Apple, as many automakers discovered that getting to market correctly is as important as getting there quickly. It turns out that another behemoth development is happening on the other side of the planet that could dramatically impact […] [Continue Reading]
Honda Collaborates To Bring Android Auto Infotainment Systems To Market
November 24, 2014 – Honda’s new Developer Studio, announced just prior to the opening of the LA Auto Show, is a significant move by a major automaker to create a direct relationship between outside app developers and their own in-house engineers, R&D teams and project managers. This will, according to Honda, allow developers to conform to automotive-grade engineering standards […] [Continue Reading]
Tesla’s New Focus: Big Data Crunching
November 13, 2014 – Not one to wait for auto or tech industry progress, Tesla Motors recently discussed the in-house creation of a new enterprise software platform using an open-source Apache Hadoop cluster and creating a framework for processing the Big Data sets generated by the company’s vehicles. The combined platform, according to Tesla, will allow software engineers and […] [Continue Reading]
Connected Car Council Member Profile: John Suh, Executive Director, Hyundai Ventures
November 11, 2014 – John Suh focuses on making strategic investments and business partnerships in the U.S. for the Hyundai Motor Company. Prior to joining Hyundai, John worked at General Motors, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and several Silicon Valley startups, where he has had roles in corporate investing, product management and R&D. John has a BS degree […] [Continue Reading]
Ford Takes the Right Step with Infotainment App Development
October 20, 2014 – We have discussed how automakers are outsourcing portions of their infotainment app development to Apple and Google and the fact that it is a generally good idea. Now it looks like Ford is joining GM in allowing their app development and management to be performed by companies known for it. Ford is steadfastly sticking with […] [Continue Reading]